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November 21, 2024

Software from scratch - the startups racing to automate app building with AI

The software development market is set to grow by more than 5x by 2031


Tim Smith

5 min read

Agemo cofounders Osman Ramadan, CTO, and Aymeric Zhuo, CEO

There’s a strange irony in the tech world that software has succeeded in automating pretty much everything apart from itself. While we use SaaS products to help us do everything from organise our time to secure our most sensitive data, the complex process of developing an app remains one that needs humans firmly in the loop.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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