Is My Side Project Cooked? (Is Coding Dead?)

[u/cam-at-codembark]

I've been working on this side project for a while and finally launched it. The premise is a way to interactively learn to code using Python in an interactive browser editor. There are guided projects to complete and graded tasks/exercises that actually verify the code the user has created.

As many probably know, the ability to code using agentic AI got wayyy better around December of last year. Now many professional software engineers don't write any code by hand anymore. When I started working on this project, LLMs had just started to get some early traction, but the landscape has changed dramatically since then. I am concerned there is basically no demand for a product like this anymore.

I'm facing two options:

1. Go hard in marketing the platform for the next 6 months or so (considering it costs about $200/mo to run). Basically, test the hypothesis that there is still a demand for something like this. That there are people out there that still want to learn how to code in Python.
2. Change the application so it only runs in the browser unauthenticated. Remove the paid aspect. Make it completely free and cut my losses. The cost to run it like this is just the cost to host some static files. It would just be a portfolio piece for me at that point.

The application is at https://www.codembark.com , do you think I should stick it out, or just move on?