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What people actually build with AI

Measured on 8,870 sites published on Kleap in the last 90 days. Not a survey, not a listicle — the real distribution.

Most people who set out to build an app end up with a page

2,589 of these sites describe themselves as an app with real functionality — the largest single group. Here is how far they got.

2,589
Set out to build an app
973
37.6%
Got a database
141
5.4%
Got data into it
0
0%
Got a real end user

That last column is not a rounding error. Building the screens is the part AI has solved; getting someone to use them is the part it has not.

What gets built

Why they build it

Something personal2,623 · 29.6%
Generate leads2,230 · 25.1%
Get sign-ups1,620 · 18.3%
Sell something1,532 · 17.3%
Find opportunities439 · 4.9%
Members and donations361 · 4.1%

Browse what they made

Every category below is a live gallery of published sites, not mockups.

How this is counted

Every site published on Kleap in the last 90 days that is public and reachable, logos excluded — they are not publishable sites by design. Type and goal are what the person told us when they started. “Got a database” means one was actually provisioned, not that the prompt asked for it; “got data into it” means at least one row exists. The figures are read at page load, so they move as the product does.

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