So many folks making apps with AI now for production. Anyone seen anything truly useful?
ASKED BY · Henry Ramos · YONKERS, NEW YORK · 26 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:26:45
Quality AI apps require developer expertise in the actual problem domain and commitment to long-term maintenance. Many AI-generated apps lack staying power or genuine understanding of user needs. Look for developers with demonstrated systems knowledge and community involvement.
Show Hub by Craig McFarlane uses AI for backend statistics and panelist tracking. Core Video by John Wallace allows Zoom ISO feed management into OBS. Stadium Sound by Chris Sabato is another useful tool in the community.
Empathy for users and understanding the specific community needs is essential. AI can help vibe-code but should be guided by frameworks addressing security, privacy, and scalability. Many vibe-coded apps are only 25-30% complete when considering production-ready requirements.
Many Office Hours community members are developing useful production tools; stay tuned for announcements. The community continues developing unreleased applications for various production needs.
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26:39Thank you. All right. Next up. Henry Ramos in Yonkers, New York comes up next. So many folks making apps with AI now for production. anyone seen anything truly useful go ahead tony so i made a quick list uh chris sabato ken jordan john wallace rabbi david paskin uh lord zoom uh john drinkwater and And beta, I want to say alpha tester Tony Mobley is working on something.
27:17So we'll see. But I would say stay tuned to office hours because there are always people in the community who are always working on things. And I would say that there are probably people that are doing things that they are just not sharing yet. And Courtney? Yeah, look to our own office hours collection of people from right here on the panel, Craig McFarland's Show Hub that he has done a little AI construction with.
27:56It's amazing. Every time I log into Show Hub, which we use here on the back end of office hours to sign up for things, and it keeps statistics and information about all the panelists and the people and the shows and everything it's been on, all the stuff that used to be done, tracked on a manual basis in the past, is now handled by the Show Hub app that Craig has done, and he can talk a little more about it.
28:24Another app that one of our panelists and back end people that operated in office hours has come up with is Core Video from John Wallace. He's made this as a couple of corevideo.io. And this allows you to bring Zoom participants into OBS as native sources. So you can look, you can see all of our smiling faces right there. uh so that's uh go to core video.io it's uh it's coming to obs and there's a mac version and a pc
28:59version in the works and a zoom i think a zoom plugin as well so uh there are a number and as tony mentioned you know there's four or five other people that are also cranking out things that are useful for sports uh for signage for uh you know doing graphics on shows things like that the list is almost endless. All right, let's go to Bill. Which is to me part of the problem. If I
29:25know somebody and trust that they're a good thinker, and I think our panelist here, Craig McFarlane, and his work on the show stuff, the show hub, is a perfect example of that. Here's somebody who understands systems and signal flows and what needs to be done. He has the specialized knowledge of having been in the environment he's programming for and has seen what is necessary and
29:52what's fluff and can make great programming decisions to be really useful and really targeted. Now, for every Craig, I think there may be a thousand people out there now who thinks, I have this great idea for a new fill in the blank, whatever it is, a new notepad that'll be exactly what I want in the world. We'll love that and they'll all want some. I'll make it a
30:15commercial product. And in point of fact, no one's ever going to hear about it. Nobody's going to ever want to use it, but you're going to go to some app store at some point and there's going to be 150,000 note apps because everybody's vibe coding their own. So I just want to, I want to find strategies as I get older to make sense out of what should I look for,
30:35whom should I look for it from. And the other thing I see is that it seems like I see more and more stuff on the web from big companies that appear like it's vibe coded and it's not very good. And it seems to have some of the, the, the AI slop involved in it, even though it's from some huge conglomerate global operation, it seems like they have lowered their standards at the same
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