Wolfrwolfr@mastodon.social
Aug 10, 2026, 2:23 AMNew blog post: The Age of Personal Software https://johanronsse.be/2026/08/09/the-age-of-personal-software
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Drew McCormackdrewmccormack@mastodon.socialAug 10, 2026, 12:49 PM@wolfr @ristkof Works for very basic apps, but you pretty quickly hit diminishing returns, which is exactly where the existing apps have put their time. Eg. I vibe coded a writing app. Think basic markdown editing chapter by chapter, like scrivener or ulysses. Looks OK, but using it day to day you start to hit the issues, and even data loss. And to get it to a solid level will take way longer than the initial setup.
- Wolfrwolfr@mastodon.socialAug 10, 2026, 5:14 PM
@drewmccormack @ristkof haven't experienced data loss so far since I prompted to secure data in multiple ways in some of my apps, but obviously it's not as backchecked as it would have been in a commercial app.
I am making the point that I make these for fun, it's true the engineering is sometimes wonky (but when hand coding, this is also the case in my case - not a hardcore programmer 😆 )