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Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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Re: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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in the age of LLM-built side projects... what's the right venue for sharing these things with other people? i feel like the expectations for a "Show HN" project are too high for a passing around a silly little toy that I had the robot throw together. product hunt is for things that are actual products/businesses. so maybe you throw it in a targetted subreddit for a niche interest group? seems like there should be a m…

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Re: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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Thia ia exactly how I use Claude and it makes my life easier. I'm not a dev, started learning Python somewhere around a year ago. Then tried to play around with Claude and to be honest, I got pretty good at it :D Built several websites, apps (the bottom ones mostly for myself - but one is being used by a record label my friends run and I'm pretty proud of it). There are a lot of pros and cons for doing these things (not sure I'd dare to go production and distribute anything publicly before a full code audit), but I'm sure that these tools are gonna get so good at it (if they're not already) that I'll be confident to release stuff. The best thing that happened with me playing with Claude is - even though I can't code, I leared a lot about stuff around it - git, terminal, deps, etc. So I'm definitely enjoying this

Re: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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>The age of actually finishing side projects is here This is a really good summary of how I've experienced AI put into words. I'm not really sure how this can be monetized though. I'm not going to burn $200-1k per day on agents to do some side projects that have been on the back burner. The only reason I'm doing it now is the heavily subsidized or free available models all over the place.

Oh, I think I misunderstood. Do you mean if we paid the real cost of the compute it would be the numbers you mention?

Yes, AI companies are bleeding money with current pricing. Your AI usage is heavily subsidized by investor dollars.

Re: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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This has been exactly my experience too. I switched from Spotify to Plex, but discovered there really isn't a music focused desktop player. So I vibe coded one, exactly how I want my music player to work (albums not playlists/tracks as the central item). I was so happy with my desktop app, I built a mobile version to use instead of PlexAmp. There are some bugs I'm ironing out, but they are both I've stopped using PlexAmp and Spotify entirely.

Re: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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> This is the future. NFTs and crypto were also the future. > I don't think we'll ever manually write code again. It's just so much faster. More work for the people who like to fix tech debt.

You need to try it before you knock it. I was a doubter. This will literally work 100x faster than you. It can one-shot 1kLOC across dozens of files in mere minutes and understand the context. You'll need to pay back a lot of those performance gains in reviewing the code, but the overall delta is a 2x speedup at minimum. I'd say it's closer to 4x. You can get a week's worth of work done in a day. A human context swit…

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Re: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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I feel like the coding assistants are opening doors for hobbyists the same way 3d printing did. If you’re into a hobby with physical components like rc-anything, robotics, or just need a one off part to fix something a 3D printer is a game changer. In the same way, if you’re into writing software for personal projects or just filling a discreet need ClaudeCode is a game changer.

Re: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

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Unfortunately, demand for silly little side projects is at an all-time low. I'm debating whether to share the one I'm working on at all. I made it for myself so maybe it should stay that way.

i really want to see the silly little side projects that everybody is making! not because i think i'll actually use any of them, but because they could inspire me to do something different in my silly little side projects the goal isn't "product release", it's elementary school "show and tell"

Me too! Maybe it should be called "Slop HN:" :)
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