At one point, the app called Twitterrifik As one of the most popular iPhone applications for Twitter browsing. Today, the company at the end of the app, and many applications followed, struggling. And AI may be blamed.
Days of Wednesday, the company known as Iconfacy admits that in the intersection and put some apps for sale due to lack of resources. While Announcement The matter of matter is a situation in the CapaG application iconfactory app has enough including many applications so that it does not work, the fact that there is no choice for a better investment.
Side products can not be used again, even if they have “many happy and loyal customers,” as the founder of the icon, the GED Maheux, said.
The company says will continue to be used in the application as Tapestry, Linea sketch, Pairand ToAlso a new job involved Portrait of Pixel RetroBut accepting “serious deals” for other applications. This sale includes the property code and the intellectual source code.
A particular interest is the company to reach the business as the reason.
The service “ChatGPT and Other AI can kill @Iconfactory, and I don’t expand or become hyperbol,” Developer IConFaptrick Sean Heber said in Mastodon Post early this month.
The problem is nobody who uses AI than a mobile app, but how is the vibe coding affects the needs of firm-design firm. Besides build up your own application, the icon icon generates income by offering app Design serviceThat includes items like design icons (start Name), app design, effort assets for marketing, added to consultation services.
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This service helps the business fuel that is currently destroyed by AI. “I don’t know anything I can stop using ChatGPs and produce new app icons in 5 minutes to make enough money, but you know,” Heber wrote.
Another problem for app makers in iconfactory as the off of the most popular, twitter, the murdered Elon by Elon Musk at 2023 when the company (now known as x) Posted by a third party clientSee rankings-. Move putting on Twitterrifik, TweetBotand more apps almost immediately out of business, which leads to Request to the user to reject refriments in the store To help them stay.
Thus, it has been affected by the licon season, Heber admits to the post.
“The first Twitter / Elon kills the main application of an income that keeps the light here, then Ai generative explodes to sign up the final blow,” he writes. “I’m probably because design @Iconfactory is good enough to have this impression if we’re sitting in a pile of money or anything and nothing.
After dying two, the icon turns into the social web that opens as a way to produce new income flow. That launch the app called tapestryThat allows users to track the source on the web, including RSS feeds, YouTube, Bluesky, podcasts, micro.Blog, and more. App offers a variety of smart tool To manage the resources, make feeds, mortal and hide content, you don’t want to see, and so on. It also offers a way for third-party developers to add tapestry with additional connectors, allowing users to add more feeds open.
The app will remain part of the company’s current effort – the Mac app is at work – but even the future can not be sure. For one thing, open the social media platform like Mastododon and Bluesky is still mature with technology giants, which means consumers to get as much as the tapestries.
As Heber are shownKickstarter app is “Hail Maria” “in the part of the company, but people do not subscribe to sufficient numbers to make the income they have been carried, they say.
If AI continues business commodity creating applications, icons will not be alone because you suffer from the consequence. But the corrected apps do not have to do what is required for consumers, not only because of human input, but also lax security Some of these apps offer.
Dealing with comments, Maheux agreed that AI had “always put a damper on the side design of the service,” even if it wasn’t “killing” now.
“Many indie developers are adopted for low or free solutions for graphics work like application icons, which are still, but often, but the developer frequency offered in the past few years,” he said.
He also refer to other factors affects business, like Apple graphics systems, SF symbols, developers can be used. The consumer is tie the subscription for all. In addition, they showed that the cost of all years, when the app cost is not, making it more difficult to find life as a small business developer.
“We’ve got to expand your gifts to other areas like UX Consulting, coding consulting, and services can be offered to use design and consultation work, and we are hoping,” said.
Updated after publication with corporate comments.