I'm sorry but I don't need app developers anymore...Claude Code built Ābsorbed

Darius Mora

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When I first started playing around with Claude Code everyone told me that it's good enough to make MVPs...

but once you scale you'll have to hire real engineers to untangle the mess.

They said it'll crash and break at scale.

They told me it's irresponsible to use it in production.

I decided to mess around and find out.

Clade Code MCP connect to XCode and many late nights later I entered into "cyber psychosis". That's when merge with your Claude and become one.

Now, 2 months after launch, we have a rapidly growing user base with a 4.8 rating on the App Store for Ābsorbed.

It works! I TOLD YOU!

Well...almost perfectly....

Okay I have to be honest, I did hire an engineer towards the end there just before submitting to Apple.

This is a premium product with a $99 / year subscription. I want to make sure our users' data is safe and the transactions flow without a hiccup.

I built 95% of the app myself, the engineer took my code, added RevenueCat integration and made sure I'm not exposing any API keys or doing something silly like that.

That's a few hours of work for a decent engineer.

Chamath Palihapitiya was saying on the All-In Podcast how the companies that are integrating AI haven't seen a return on investment...and in my mind I'm thinking "What are these people doing with AI if they haven't seen a return?!?!"

The technology is unreal, but it's only as good as the human sitting in the chair.

Me personally, I'm not sitting, I'm writing this laying down by the pool in Bali, while Claude is redesigning our onboarding.

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I'm sorry but I don't need app developers anymore...Claude Code built Ābsorbed