Steve Wozniak meets the Future of Personal Software
At A3F in Zurich, Bloom showed how creating software can become more personal, immediate, and accessible — including a demo with Steve Wozniak.
Max Martinez Ruts·2 min read
Bloom joined A3F at Kaufleuten in Zurich to show a simple idea in practice: building software should feel as natural as describing what you want to create.
During the live demo, people in the audience could scan a QR code, open the Bloom mobile app, and follow along as mobile apps were created in real time.
Why Showing Bloom to Woz Felt Meaningful
One of the special moments from A3F was getting to show Bloom to Steve Wozniak.
That sentence still feels a little surreal. But the moment mattered for a simple reason: Woz helped make computers personal. He was part of the generation that moved computing from something distant and specialized into something people could actually have in front of them, experiment with, and build on.
That shift is close to what Bloom is making possible with software creation. For a long time, building software has required a lot of setup: technical knowledge, engineering time, product specs, design tools, back-and-forth, and usually a team. Bloom makes the first step much simpler. Describe the app you want, see it take shape, try it, change it, and keep going.
That is what made the Woz demo feel bigger than a photo. It connected the history of personal computing to the reason Bloom exists in the first place: to make creating software feel more personal, more immediate, and more accessible.
What Bloom Showed at A3F
The stage demo was intentionally hands-on. Instead of only watching a walkthrough, people could open Bloom on their own phones and follow along while apps were built live. That format matters for a product like Bloom. The loop is easiest to understand when people can see it for themselves: describe an idea, generate an app, adjust it, and keep building.
Building for the Next Wave of Creators
The main takeaway from A3F was that people are ready for a more direct way to build. Software has shaped every industry, but creating it has still been limited by access to technical skills, development time, and engineering resources. AI changes that equation. It does not remove the value of great engineers, but it expands who can begin building and how quickly ideas can be tested.
Bloom is building toward a world where more people can create the software they need, when they need it.
Personal computers gave individuals access to computing.
Personal software gives individuals access to creation.
Thanks to Alan Frei and the A3F team for bringing the community together, and to everyone who joined the session, asked questions, and tried Bloom during the demo.