I've been using AI for the last 3 months to generate images, code snippets, and ideas for small projects. It's super fast, but I noticed I m starting to prompt instead of thinking from scratch, and my own ideas feel less original.
For those of you who build products with AI tools every day has AI made you personally more creative or less creative? Do you have any rule you follow to make sure you still think for yourself and not just copy what AI gives you?
I copied something last month. Not literally, but I took a way of working I admired from someone else and tried it in my own project.
It did not work. Not because the idea was bad, but because it was built on assumptions that were true for them and not for me. Their context was different in ways that took me three weeks to notice.
You don t really read it, and now it has to be reviewed by your colleagues, and they are like, this doesn t look right,' You re just letting AI do the work for you. The words of Shopify's CEO. So how do you tackle it? Anything that is working on your end?
Hitting the paywall too early is such a common trap. When you lock core features behind a steep price right at the start, power users never get a chance to build a habit with the tool let alone prove its ROI to their team.
We used to gate our main productivity features instantly, which completely ruined upgrade rates.
Shifting to a usage-based limit instead of a hard feature wall helped a lot.
How do you decide which features to keep free versus what belongs in the pro tier?
Privacy has been a significant global concern for many years. A recent study by the University of Colorado Boulder revealed that the average smartphone user would invest an additional $5 for a standard application ('app') that refrains from monitoring their location, contact lists, and other personal data. With lifelogging devices such as Narrative reshaping this landscape, the prospect of individuals paying for their privacy shortly seems increasingly plausible. Could your company capitalize on this emerging trend?
We had a user who submitted four support tickets in two weeks about the same thing: she couldn't filter her dashboard by date range without exporting to CSV first.
I'll be honest - my first read was that she was a power user with niche needs. We had bigger things to build.
Everyone is hyping up GEO as the new SEO. Honestly? They re just merging. But hype aside, if you aren't tracking how ChatGPT or Perplexity cite your product, you're flying blind. What tools are you actually using to monitor your brand's AI visibility right now?
