I've been thinking about this for a while and I think we're at an inflection point that most people are framing wrong. I get that we are working on AI to make devs faster, but I think there’s legitimately something way bigger happening.
Software is becoming content. Right now on Prom, people are making food spinner wheels, magic 8-balls, birthday countdown pages, portfolio sites all from prompts, all shareable with a link. Nobody told them what to build. They don’t need a Vercel app to deploy it or even their own domain. Someone had an idea and it existed a few minutes later (trying to get this faster, lol).
None of these are "apps" in the traditional sense. They don't need maintenance. They don't need a backlog. They exist because someone wanted them to exist for a moment, shared them, and moved on. Or someone else found it, remixed it, and made it their own. Ephemeral software.
So Prom is built around that. You make software from a prompt, but the core of the platform is discovery and remixing. There's a feed. There are trending drops. You can remix anything. It's closer to a creative platform than a dev tool.
I'd genuinely love this crowd's feedback. Plz roast me. :)
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Software is becoming content. Right now on Prom, people are making food spinner wheels, magic 8-balls, birthday countdown pages, portfolio sites all from prompts, all shareable with a link. Nobody told them what to build. They don’t need a Vercel app to deploy it or even their own domain. Someone had an idea and it existed a few minutes later (trying to get this faster, lol).
None of these are "apps" in the traditional sense. They don't need maintenance. They don't need a backlog. They exist because someone wanted them to exist for a moment, shared them, and moved on. Or someone else found it, remixed it, and made it their own. Ephemeral software.
So Prom is built around that. You make software from a prompt, but the core of the platform is discovery and remixing. There's a feed. There are trending drops. You can remix anything. It's closer to a creative platform than a dev tool.
I'd genuinely love this crowd's feedback. Plz roast me. :)