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Why App Economy Disruption Won’t Happen As Fast As Everyone Thinks – Eric Seufert

Short commentary episode: David Barnard asks Eric Seufert (Mobile Dev Memo) whether AI will disrupt the app economy. Seufert argues generative tools are inflationary for advertising (more content, harder to stand out), that distribution not code is the barrier, that vibe coding cannot produce scalable products, that AI helps defend against copycats (his team scans the App Store daily for copycats and their ads), and that cheaper software pushes monetization toward ads without collapsing CPMs because new apps are the ad buyers.

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Use AI to scan the App Store daily for copycats and track their ads

Speaker says it gives them defenses against clones; no results shared

“So you can use AI to scan the app store every day, look for copycat apps. I mean, we've built stuff at [inaudible 00:15:40] to do this. We look at the app store every day. We're looking at stuff that's rising virally. We're scanning it, we're looking at the ads that they run.”

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Sub Club by RevenueCat · 2026-03-08