Jewell

For early stage solo makers who want to bootstrap what is your opinion on revenue streams? Some people say it is better to grow an audience and make money through affiliate programs such, as Amazon, AliExpress or SaaS programs before launching your paid tool. Other people say you must focus completely on launching your product from day one. Has anyone here financed their journey through side hustle affiliate income?

AI allowed us to transform our ideas into prototype significantly faster than ever before.

The issue arose a couple of weeks later when we started making changes.

The simple feature change needed an explanation of the relation between several pieces of code that didn t seem related to each other at all.

We replaced our standard canned responses with AI-written drafts to speed up support. It definitely cut down our initial response time, but it brought an unexpected problem: users are opening way more follow-up tickets.

Because the AI sounds so natural, customers treat it like a friendly conversation rather than a quick sign-off, which keeps our queue packed. Now we're re-tuning our prompts to focus on closing tickets instead of just being overly conversational.

Have you had to tweak your support AI to make sure it actually finishes conversations instead of extending them?