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spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.42164682[source]
I have about 6 months of coding experience. All I really knew was how to build a basic MERN app

I’ve been using Sonnet 3.5 to code and I’ve managed to build multiple full fledged apps, including paid ones

Maybe they’re not perfect, but they work and I’ve had no complaints yet. They might not scale to become the next Facebook, but not everything has to scale

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njtransit ◴[] No.42164691[source]
Can you share some examples?
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spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.42164994[source]
ThumbnailGenius.com (has a ton of new features I haven’t pushed yet as I wait for approval from a payment processor)

MetHacker.io (has a lot of features I had to remove because of X API’s new pricing - see /projects on it)

GoUnfaked.com

PlaybookFM.com

TokenAI.dev (working with blowfish to remove the warning flag)

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1. vunderba ◴[] No.42165917[source]
With the lower barrier to entry comes dozens of nearly "apps" that are nearly indistinguishable from each other.

ThumbnailGenius

There's already several sites that generate YT thumbnails with AI:

https://vidiq.com/ai-thumbnails-generator/

https://www.testmythumbnails.com/create-thumbnails-with-ai

PlaybookFM

AI Podcasts have been a thing for a while - though I can't imagine who finds listening to TTS voices with LLM content particularly engaging over a genuine person who puts time and effort into crafting an engaging personality.

GoUnfaked

I don't really understand the point of this one - it generates photorealistic AI pictures? Isn't that exactly what Getty Images AI, Freepik, etc. are all doing already?

Good luck - but this feels like a very "spray and pray" approach to development. It feels like it has the same probability to generate genuine income as people who try to start Patreon pages for their AI "artwork".

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2. spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.42165957[source]
I have at least 10 people signing up for thumbnailgenius every day when I haven’t even started marketing it

So hey, maybe its not revolutionary, but some people find it useful enough

Which is fine by me. Maybe you can tackle changing the world. I’ll just focus on being useful enough to some people