Most apps aren’t standalone and the services they depend on are nontrivial to build. For example, maybe you could vibe code a guitar tuner app, but not a ride share app.
I agree. The services which will be left standing will be those with a competitive moat: critical mass (Tinder, Facebook), content (YouTube, AppleTV), and scale (frontier AI models requiring expensive hardware), etc.
That said, if you look at the apps on your phone, I wager a large proportion don't have these moats. Translation, passwords, budget, reminders, email, to do, project management, messaging, browser, calendar, fitness, games, game tracking, etc.
That said, if you look at the apps on your phone, I wager a large proportion don't have these moats. Translation, passwords, budget, reminders, email, to do, project management, messaging, browser, calendar, fitness, games, game tracking, etc.