Doesn’t have to be VC backable. Todoist is the classic bootstrapped todo list app making north of $20 million a year. Fantastical for iOS and a lot of cute calendar apps make very good incomes for lifestyle business.
Sure Anthropic might have this on the roadmap and release next week. But apps like this can literally make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few weeks — well worth the effort for a few months work I would say.
Todoist is a huge outlier. They had an early mover advantage (it was one of the first mobile todo apps). A few other Todo players also managed to keep an audience, even after Apple and Google rolled their (still half baked in 2025) alternatives - multiple years later.
It’s a very, very different story.
I’m obviously not saying anyone should stop building apps or dismissing this or any other app from being potentially successful. It’s just a fundamentally different scenario than the early days of mobile, particularly for thin LLM wrappers
That's true. I wish I could make good memes or could sell shock-value crap like "cheat on everything" with a straight face... limiting my potential there
Sure Anthropic might have this on the roadmap and release next week. But apps like this can literally make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few weeks — well worth the effort for a few months work I would say.