[tetris11]

Will the complex apps be discoverable though, and if not, will the devs bother at all? I feel like this would be a win for old-school open source, where people would do it for the love of the aim, and better vetted app stores like F-Droid might win out

[nulledy]

Surprisingly I'm seeing a rapid increase of discoverability for my apps FROM LLMs. The flood of Claude/ChatGPT users finding my apps right after I get a basic site up, before I've told anyone it exists, is astonishing.

If you are solving a problem users are searching for, you will be found and found faster than ever via LLMs.

[afavour]

Is that a new problem though? I thought the App Store had been dead for discovery for a long time.

[hermitcrab]

>Will the complex apps be discoverable though

That is the real issue. How to get noticed in a sea of slop.

[conductr]

Complexity doesn’t matter. Nobody jumps on the App Store and thinks, “I’m going to install something complex today.”

Presumably complex problems are lacking solutions and if that requires a complexity to solve, people will discover it. Not because it’s complex, because prior solutions were lacking.