The Proto-App Thesis

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...

Carl Pei Thinks the Phone of the Future Will Only Have One App

Nothing’s CEO speaks to WIRED about how he sees the smartphone market playing out in an era of AI, and where he thinks the competition is going wrong.

What my chess app taught me about the future of multi-user software - hadsie's blog

I was skeptical that AT Proto was anything more than Bluesky-with-extra-steps, learnt how much potential the protocol has after building a multiplayer chess app, entirely client side and "on protocol". The real value is that apps become different views into the same data.

Apps are too complex so maybe features should be ownable and tradable

Posted on Friday 29 Apr 2022. 1,955 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

Native Development

I’ve been on a long-term quest to find a simple, fast, and user-friendly way to develop native applications for a variety of platforms, and this page holds ...

Don't Frack. Precipitate!

Don’t Frack. Precipitate! Two opposing approaches to create soft software for the age of AI Author: If you stop someone on the street and ask them to imagine the canonical piece of software, what will they say? Almost certainly something like “Instagram.” An app. Apps have become such a dominan...

GREG ISENBERG on Twitter / X

Apple JUST quietly announced something that’s a lot BIGGER than it looks: "the Mini Apps Partner Program"Apple is admitting that the future of software is embedded, lightweight, vertical mini-apps distributed inside bigger appFor founders who want to make $$ building apps:… pic.twitter.com/jZz7dU6w07— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) November 14, 2025

Three-Dimensional Unit Economics: The Compute Cost of Retention

Why AI-native apps need a new financial framework. And a new metric to run it.