In a way, it’s a great time to be an indie developer. But the challenge is getting noticed in all the noise when you’re just getting started. So many apps. And I get lots of emails that look AI-generated, so it’s becoming hard to tell what is a friendly email from another developer and what is fake.

@manton I’d think that a portion of the ai-looking emails are not fake but well meaning less confident devs. I also think increasingly that no longer matters and a worse message is better than a generated looking one.

@manton.org I discovered Pangram helps reduce the cognitive load of detected real vs generated.
insideview.ie/2026/09/22/h…

@manton I discovered Pangram helps reduce the cognitive load of detected real vs generated.
insideview.ie/2026/09/22/h…

@manton what makes it a great time to be an indie developer?

@sander I think you’re right. The pattern that sticks out is the “I saw you blogged about topic, so check out my app”… Feels AI-researched, at least.