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by dghlsakjg 286 days ago
I think what a lot of people fail to grasp is that the hard/expensive part about running an app based business is rarely writing the app.

Most web developers can clone twitter in a day, even before LLMs. I've seen it assigned as homework for bootcamp devs (not knocking bootcamp devs, just pointing out that it isn't a tall ask even for a junior. Most apps aren't hard to code to an MVP.

The hard part about an app based business is the business part. Marketing, billing, and getting actual revenue and customers is much harder than writing code.