Reading up on App Store
7 deep · digging since dec 24, 25
- Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
Lumara is a dashboard app displaying live NASA sun imagery, moon phase data, and space weather events for mobile and desktop.
- What Are Chinese People Vibecoding? - by Irene Zhang
Chinese AI companies like ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba are racing to build domestic coding agents, while developers bypass geoblocks to access Western tools like Cursor.
- AI is going to kill app subscriptions
The article argues that because AI makes app creation and cloning nearly free, subscription pricing will become unsustainable.
- Margin Call | Hacker News
Apple's services gross margin hit 76.5% and overall gross margin 48.2%, both record highs, despite widespread pundit pessimism.
- The WAU effect | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert
OpenAI's choice to report weekly active users instead of monthly active users masks low retention and saturation, inflating perceived growth.
Takes
i think this kid just found the laziest way to promote apps. this feels way too easy.
@simonecanciello
introducing Reelful from a camera roll to a finished reel in just 10 minutes live on the App Store now! by the end of the year, all short videos on the internet will be created with Reelful! the ending is so funny 🤣😀
@katedeyneka