Making apps: a new kind of show business
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Making apps: a new kind of show business
This video examines the historical pattern where emerging media platforms like YouTube, blogs, Instagram, and TikTok were initially dismissed before evolving into major industries. It details how no-code AI platforms such as Replit, Bolt, and Lovable are democratizing software development. Finally, the host compares vibe coders and modern app builders to the next wave of creative content stars.
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Historical cycle of new creative media
The host highlights how early YouTube, blogs, Instagram, and TikTok were initially dismissed as slop or amateur trash before growing into massive industries.
The rise of no-code AI software development
The presenter explains how platforms like Replit, Bolt, and Lovable are turning app creation into an accessible medium, driving massive revenue growth and enabling anyone to build custom software without coding knowledge.
The YouTube moment for vibe coders
The host discusses the arrival of vibe coding and app builders as the next generation of creative content stars, inviting viewers to share if they are already building.
Transcript
Everyone is calling AI videos slop, AI apps slop, AI music slop.
Just an endless dribble of computer-generated nonsense that no one cares about.
But you know what else was called slop? YouTube videos in 2005. Stupid cat videos made by kids in their bedroom. But here's the pattern: every transformative creative medium gets dismissed as trash at first until it changes the world and how we create, share, and consume. Blogs, these were just online diaries by amateurs and no one would read them. Now they're the backbone of independent journalists and media brands. Instagram: these are just hipster selfies with cringe filters and no one cares what you had for lunch.
Now it's a $24 billion influencer economy. TikTok: these are just dancing teens. Now it's the global stage that sets every trend and TikTok Shop drives globally $33 billion with 120% growth in the US. While history doesn't repeat, it rhymes. New tech makes creation easier and more accessible, everybody floods in, quality looks terrible, critics and pros mock it, new creator class emerges, and a complete cultural takeover in 3 to 5 years, almost every single time.
So what's the next slop that becomes everything, you ask? Building apps and writing code. 15 years ago, YouTube proved that the world was short on video content. We just didn't know it because only TV studios could make it. Now 500 hours is uploaded every minute. Today, the world is short of software and apps. We just don't know it because only engineers can build it. Until now. Tools like Replit, Bolt, Lovable, and Google AI Studio let you build working apps just by describing what you want.
Zero coding knowledge needed. Replit went from $2.8 to $150 million in revenue in under a year, and Lovable became the fastest-growing software company ever with $100 million in annual run rate in just 8 months. People are building manifestation apps, bespoke workout apps, warranty trackers, movie discovery, games, apps and categories that cost $50,000 2 years ago and couldn't be justified because of the small niche. Google's head of AI Studio estimates that everyone will be vibecoding games by the end of 2025 and that this will be the unlock for the next 100 million developers.
This is the YouTube moment for software and then games. The generators, people who build apps as content, are emerging right now. Just like early YouTubers looked ridiculous and weren't taken seriously by studios, vibe coders building AI apps today are looked at like amateurs by developers. But in 3 years, they will be the new rock stars, the cool kids that are already building. Let me know below if you're already building as well.