A creator who teaches people how to build apps is also quietly proving how many simple app ideas still attract real demand.

Mark Mirho, who posts as @makewithmax, makes content about prototyping products and finding customers.

Across Instagram and TikTok, he has generated more than 21M views, much of it through one repeatable series: Max’s Apps.

The format is extremely straight-forward.

He opens on his phone’s home screen, introduces a tiny app he built, and explains what it does in a few seconds.

That structure has worked especially well when the app helps people cheat luck.

One of the strongest examples was “Max’s Apps #4 Fake Coin Flip,” which reached 942K views on Instagram and 828K on TikTok.

The next strongest idea sat in a similar lane of playful manipulation. “Fake Siri App,” a version of Siri that always answers “yes,” reached 880K views and 11K bookmarks on TikTok.

Then came another variation on the same social-advantage theme: “Max’s Apps #33 Fake Rock Paper Scissors,” which hit 580K views on Instagram.

What the series really shows is that these tiny apps are acting like demand tests.

Max keeps them free and does not monetize them, but the signal is still strong: simple, playful “rigged” tools get attention quickly, and together they could easily become one themed product.