In 2020, Robin Sloan wrote about BoopSnoop , a messaging app he built for his family. Four people downloaded it. He considered this a resounding success. His point was simple: an app can be a home-cooked meal. You don't need scale. You don't need users. You cook for the people you love. The app took him a week to build, half of it lost to code-signing purgatory. He wrote: "In a better world, I would have built this in a day, using some kind of modern, flexible HyperCard for iOS." The time is now Six years later, the essay resurfaced on X when Thariq wrote that "personal software was a bit early in 2020 but in 2026, it really can be as personal as a home cooked meal, or a handwritten letter." Lee Robinson wrote about the same shift . AI has made "personal computing" actually personal .…