"We’ll just build it ourselves" is the most expensive sentence in AI
hey PH 👋 Ola here, Specsight is launching today 🚀
I talk to a lot of teams shipping fast with AI. nobody argues the problem isn’t real, their product changes every day and nobody can keep up with what’s live. but the reply I hear most is "we’ll just build an agent for that. simple"
is it though? 😅 when teams actually try, I ask them three things:
how much momentum did you lose building and fixing an internal tool instead of your own product?
does anyone actually use it, or is it another side project nobody opens?
do you trust what it says enough for sales or support to rely on it?
because building something is one thing. keeping it accurate on a codebase that changes every day, maintaining it, and getting people to actually rely on it is a whole product on its own
one team I work with built their own version. it worked for a while, then they switched to Specsight
so I’m curious, what internal tool did your team build that you later regretted?
launch: https://www.producthunt.com/products/specsight?launch=specsight-2


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@julius_hnz 100%, and opportunity cost is the part everyone forgets. it’s not just the hours building it, it’s every week maintaining it instead of shipping what customers pay for. and that’s exactly why Specsight is priced per company, not per seat, so the whole team gets it without paying a fortune in licenses
and thanks!! you’re so right about vibe coding. it’s fun until nobody, including the person who built it, knows what’s in the product anymore. have you seen that happen in your team?