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Andres's avatar

Google quietly launched the same feature about a month ago, Gemini powered apps built within Gemini. It's amazing. For some reason it's hidden behind a small button.

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Brian Balfour's avatar

Interesting. Hidden indeed. Will check it out.

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Andres's avatar

Create an app in canvas, and click on a small Gemini icon floating on top of the app. That will add AI features to the app, using the end user’s api key when they are logged to a Google account.

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mitchellias's avatar

Nice post, we seem to be tracking very similar patterns :)

I think you will resonate with the larger theme I presented in my article, which shows how the long tail of SaaS is becoming economically viable to build for, and how this is going to change discovery and distribution with these platforms.

https://techvision.substack.com/p/the-micro-saas-explosion-when-software

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Hi Brian, I was asking in general about content growth loops. For example, with one-time course products/even software, is a content loop meant to collect new users/customers over time or re-engage existing customers to continue using their product?

My guess is the former but then I wonder how is it different from a standard content creation funnel?

And for recurring (subscription or SaaS) is the focus on the latter as well?

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Brian Balfour's avatar

We have a lot on Reforge:

https://www.reforge.com/guides/discover-content-growth-loops

https://www.reforge.com/c/ags-series-eg/micro-growth-loops/content-loops/intro-to-content-loops

The basics of a user generated content loop are:

1. New user joins / returns.

2. % create content using the platform/tool.

3. That content then gets distributed.

4. Attracting more users (repeat step one)

A standard content creation funnel works very differently.

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Thanks for the explainer! It just clicked for me (UGC -> distributed -> get more users)

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Reminds me of Notion templates

Just fell in the loop this weekend by sharing a tool with another writer friend

Question: how does a content loop work? Is it constantly reminding a user what you can do with a tool/platform?

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Brian Balfour's avatar

What part of the content loop are you asking about? Getting people to convert to creators? Or getting creators to distribute?

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