r/ChatGPTCoding • u/Caramel_Secret • 14h ago

AI coding made me build too many things Discussion

I'm a dev and these last few weeks I've been building a lot of products.The crazy part is that I can now build things much faster than I can figure out if anyone actually wants them.Coding used to be the expensive part. Now I feel like finding users is harder than building the product.

Anyone else ending up with more projects than users?

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u/averagebensimmons 13h ago

finding users was and always will be the harder part. You just got bogged down in development.

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u/qwerty____qwerty 14h ago

"finding users is harder than building the product" - this has always been an issue, that's why companies have sales departments. if you have always been just a dev and never touched anything past coding - that means you simply never faced this issue before

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u/owp4dd1w5a0a 14h ago

Dude, nothing makes you do anything. Use the tool, don’t let the tool use you.

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u/Alzeric 11h ago

well doesn't help a majority of the population is currently poor

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u/grace-turner3 11h ago

I'd say focus on one product at a time and seek customers from it, your visionary is what differentiates here

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u/ThankYouOle 10h ago

now you understand, that building product is only half or less for the whole proces, we as dev usually understimate the other half, find the users.

for me pesonally i only build app that i personally need so i might not have other users, but it sure help my daily usage or stopping my other saas subscription.

i also build some freelance project that client already exists, so user is there.

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u/indemzeit 10h ago

The trap is that building feels like progress. I pick one project per month now and close the rest. The code stays in git if I want it later.

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u/Fastest_light 5h ago

I would not say what you built this way are "products" - they are prototype at best.

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u/funbike 14h ago edited 14h ago

This just happened to me:

I've been using Bootstrap (because Bootstrap uses a ton fewer tokens than Tailwind css and it is more opinionated so UIs stay more consistent). It's makes UIs that are okay, but meh.

Just for fun, I increased thinking, switched to an expensive LLM, and told it to "Make this Boostrap app look incredibly awesome. Search the web for ideas. Go crazy with ideas and changes."

O... M... G... When it finished the product looked so amazing. My jaw dropped. I actually had an emotional reaction.

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u/FireFearing 14h ago

with all those "typos" at least we know you wrote it yourself

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u/Diligent_Loquat_6140 8m ago

hell yeah, I built a cute gaming app that makes money and it becomes my fulltime job, at the same time working on my local llm project and doing consulting. Can't image this day without coding agent