shadcn Debates AI-Era App Distribution: Turnkey vs. Source Code Head Start
shadcn · x · 2026-07-22
Prominent UI developer shadcn initiated a discussion on software distribution models in the AI era. He built a prompting utility app compatible with existing tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor.
Arguing that AI has made distributing source code much more interesting, he polled the community: when buying such an app, would users rather receive a finished product (A) or a customizable source code "head start" to fit their workflows (B)?
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