Building got cheap! What's the hard part now?
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For most of my career, the hard part was building. Could you actually make the thing, ship it, keep it from falling over at 2am? That's where the hours went.
That's mostly gone now. Whatever I can describe clearly, I can build fast. Sounds like pure upside — until you notice it just moved the hard part somewhere else. Deciding what's worth building. Getting anyone to care once it's out. AI will make anything I describe and never once ask if it should exist.
So I'm curious where it landed for everyone else. Building got cheap — what's the thing slowing you down now? Taste? Distribution? Just deciding what not to build?
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Building was never the hard part for me either, I shipped an invoicing app in a few weeks. The hard part is exactly what you said:- getting anyone to care. I'm a few days post-launch with under 50 users, no paid acquisition and it's humbling how little "I built something good" matters if nobody hears about it. Distribution is the actual skill now and it's the one AI can't do for you!