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6/19/2026
I Built 12 Apps With AI. Here's Where Every One of Them Died.

I Built 12 Apps With AI. Here's Where Every One of Them Died.

Short summary

Marketer built 12 apps with AI tools (Lovable, Bolt, v0); all failed at deployment. AI solved creation but left infrastructure (hosting, domains, environment configs, DevOps) gatekept by developer assumptions. The gap between 'working locally' and 'live link' is where every AI-built app dies.

  • •AI builders democratized app creation but left deployment completely gatekept
  • •Deployment (DevOps, hosting, domains) is the consistent failure point across all platforms
  • •Gap between 'works on my screen' and 'here's a URL' remains the actual bottleneck

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.

#ai-tools#product-launch#market-trend#industry-adoption
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