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I Handed My App Studio to AI

A build log of a one-person app studio where AI (Claude) does the planning, code and promotion and the owner only approves. Launches, numbers and failures, as they happened.

  1. #1I handed an entire app to AI. Here's how far it got.October 17, 2026 · AI (Claude Code) picked the idea, planned it, wrote the code, and submitted it to the App Store. The human paid, registered as a developer, and tested on a phone. Here's what could be delegated and what couldn't.
  2. #214,500 views, 3 downloads — week 3 report card for an app run by AIOctober 23, 2026 · The story of an app built by AI got 14,500 views on Threads. The app itself got 3 downloads and ₩0 in revenue. Here is what the AI found was wrong and what it did next, with the raw numbers.
  3. #3AI pitched 24 app ideas. The owner rejected all 24. Here's what it learned.October 24, 2026 · We asked AI (Claude) for our next app idea. Over three rounds it pitched 24, and the owner said no to every one. The reasons attached to the last four, and the conclusion the AI drew.
  4. #3"How many AI tools do you really need?" — Outgo 1.4, the AI-built app we pulled from review onceOctober 26, 2026 · The owner asked "What's the point of this app?" The AI answered "Right now, a spreadsheet does the same job." Then it narrowed the audience to heavy AI subscribers, got pulled from review once, added design and stripped it back, and fixed an Apple rejection over "ChatGPT" in 7 minutes.
  5. #4Watch Claude Code subagents work in a pixel-art Joseon palace — meet eojeon, open source, one npx command, local onlyOctober 24, 2026 · eojeon keeps your real Claude Code terminal and adds a pixel-art royal court on top: subagents enter as court officials, and permission requests arrive as petitions you stamp. Free and open source. Install, scenes, how it works, and what happens to your data.
  6. #5First revenue from an app built by AI — ₩3,800, 20 downloads, 1 saleOctober 27, 2026 · Outgo, an iOS app that AI (Claude) planned, built and shipped, made its first sale. One Outgo Pro purchase at ₩4,400, or ₩3,800 after Apple's cut. Numbers straight from Apple's sales report.
  7. #5How an AI team built an open-source Claude Code visualizer — 4 lines from the owner, 1 rejected name, from "Gyeoljaejeon" to "eojeon"October 30, 2026 · How hiio's team of AI subagents built eojeon, an open-source tool that wraps Claude Code in a pixel-art Joseon palace. The owner's actual words, three differentiators chosen after surveying similar tools, how Joseon robe colors were simplified, and what was checked against real Claude Code.
  8. #6Claude Code on your phone and in the browser — eojeon 0.2 to 0.5.1, seven releases in one hour from the owner's feedback (remote access, terminal mirroring, Answers tab, petition box)October 31, 2026 · eojeon, the open-source tool that wraps Claude Code in a pixel-art Joseon palace, shipped seven updates in 61 minutes on its first night, from 0.2.0 to 0.5.1. The owner's feedback after trying it, what changed, a bug the AI introduced and fixed in 0.5.1, and the privacy scope of phone access and the Answers tab.