I stopped looking for the perfect meditation app and built my own using AI — and it was done in under 5 minutes
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If a non-technical user can ship a working meditation timer in under 5 minutes with Google AI Studio, the bar for ‘simple app’ SaaS just dropped again. Founders in narrow utilities need to assume users will increasingly assemble their own tools and compete on data, distribution, or integration depth, not basic CRUD features.
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