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DELIGHT IS THE ONLY THING THAT'S STILL RARE

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AI has made building apps cheap, flooding the market with “adequate” products while truly good, thoughtful ones remain just as rare—creating a signal problem where quality is hard to find. What now differentiates successful products isn't features but careful attention to detail and human judgment, and discovery increasingly depends on trust and word-of-mouth from credible curators rather than algorithms.