The Missing Middle

This week, Federico and John examine the widening gap between consumer and enterprise apps, asking what happened to prosumer and small business app market.

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Why Aren’t Developers Making Prosumer and Small Business Apps Anymore?

• Todoist
• Fantastical
• PDFpen
• Beeper
• Adium
• GroupMe
• Slack
• Discord
• Microsoft Teams
• Notion
• Shortwave
• Claude
• Memberful
• GitHub
• 1Password
• Google Workspace

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• Federico Viticci
• John Voorhees

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