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The AI turned my 30 year old icon library into a paid Mac app in 11 days

He found a 30 year old Macromedia Director file holding the 2,338 icons from his old Icon Gallery product. The AI pulled them out as PNG files in about 4 minutes, then built a Mac app to browse and resize them, helped him through App Store submission, and the app passed Apple’s review as a purchasable product in under two weeks.

How it works

  1. Gives the AI the Director file and asks it to split out the icons
  2. The AI extracts more than 2,000 PNG files in about 4 minutes
  3. The AI builds the browsing and resizing app over a few days of his direction
  4. The AI walks him through App Store submission screens and adversarial checks
  5. The paid app passes review in 11 days

Why it’s worth knowing

The AI read a file format that has been dead for decades and pulled 2,338 usable images out of it in about 4 minutes.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on zdnet.com. See the original ↗

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