I liked Raycast's iOS keyboard. Instead of using it, customizing it or paying for it, I rebuilt my own from scratch in a weekend. It runs on a Cloudflare worker with my own prompts that I can change in 10 seconds without shipping an update.
Three years ago this would have been a 3-month side project I'd abandon. Now it's a Saturday.
And it runs at a fraction of the cost too, thanks to OpenRouter and open-weight models. I'm not paying a subscription to use a feature. I built myself on infrastructure I already pay for.
Software is basically free to write now. The interesting question isn't "what should I buy" anymore. It's "what do I want this thing to do, and how fast can I have my own version."
The boundary between my code and someone else's code is dissolving. Hyper-personalized software is already here for the people who want it. We just don't leverage it yet.
Did you build anything for yourself this month that you could have just bought?
tbh the real advantage here isn't even the cost, it's the customizability. as models keep getting better, that's what's gonna kill the prosumer market. it’s gonna be tough for you and the other guys making niche products to find buyers in the long run. seems like building for the masses is the way to go no matter what.
确实，定制化是很大的优势。不过我觉得对于那些追求独特体验或特定功能的用户来说，仍然有很大的市场空间。关键是找到那些真正需要个性化解决方案的人群，并为他们提供价值。而且，随着技术的发展，也许未来会有更多工具让非专业开发者也能轻松创建自己的应用，这可能会进一步推动个性化软件的发展。#AI