July 2025 Software Sales and Deals

The July '25 edition of Indie App Sales is coming soon… (July 15-16, 2025)

(500+ participating apps; some might be valuable?)

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Would be interesting to know how many of these very specific one-trick apps were written by Claude.

Katie

Mac app expert here.

Photo Frame listed on that page has got to be one of the best most joy inducing apps I have ever purchased. It’s the top app of its kind and I tried over 20 of them from the app stores.

Tip for my MPUs. Skip the sub and just pony up for the lifetime. Create a dummy App Store account just for the photo frame account and put them on multiple iPads.

This is it folks, the best app of its kind and one of the great hidden gems on iOS, iPad OS, and Mac.

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Would be interesting to know how many of these very specific one-trick apps were written by Claude.

That would be interesting.

It’d be even more interesting (for me, at least) to see a bunch of (honest) reviews of the apps.

That’s one of the great things about coming here - you learn about the software and how well it works. For instance, the Giving Kagi a Test Run thread is really helpful. I don’t personally care if a developer uses AI, assembler language, morse code, or tea-leave-reading!

You should, not in detail, but you ought to have a sense of whether a particular developer is approaching their work methodically, taking responsibility for their product and aiming to serve the customer, or whether they are willing to “take shortcuts” to get something viable out the door and making money quickly. It’s particularly important that software that does anything worthwhile (that you might rely on) is reliable and predictable: which implies the developer having a good understanding of the core algorithms and data structures it uses. Trusting an AI to write an app that doesn’t matter is one thing. Trusting an AI to write an app which can affect people and their work is quite another.

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My gut agrees with you, for now, but I don’t think we’re going to end up with a lot of AI coders producing rubbish, at least not medium to long term. The market will kill them off because no one will pay for them.

I suspect there will be a short term drop in quality, as people use AI for speed, but then when that fails commercially, they’ll start using AI for quality, and speed will come from quality.

looks interesting. It shows it supports Family Shared Purchases so perhaps the Lifetime Purchase qualifies across the family plan.

Long-term, yes. But when looking at a list of deeply discounted apps, that means it can be more important to do some due diligence and make sure that you know what you are buying.

The risk of AI coding is likely not nearly as much in the initial app, but in the long-term viability/maintainability thereof.

Remember, AI is trained on the existing corpus of code available on the Internet – much of which is rather buggy, given the amount of maintenance releases, new versions, bug fixes, security fixes, etc. that keep coming out. :slight_smile:

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If I were still a programmer, and I decided to go it on my own, I’d definitely use AI to help me with selling and marketing my product.

Coding is hard, but selling something - no matter how good, or bad - is hard, and (based on my experience, of me) it’s hard for good engineers to find the words to sell.

Because of their 14 year anniversary, Apptorium is having a sale:

They also offer discounts on a few apps which they did not create themselves; for example a 20% discount on Fantastical.