Even taking the “we’re all 100x more efficient at writing code” argument at face value… there’s still all of the product/market fit, marketing, sales, etc “schlep” which is very much non-trivial.
Are there any agentic sales and marketing offerings?
Because being able to reliably hand off that part of the value chain to an agent would close a real gap. (Not sure this can be done in reality)
> Experience is what you get when you don’t have any.
The only better experience than working on a legacy codebase is working on a greenfield project long enough to watch it become legacy and see the good and bad consequences of past decisions.
Not a bad thing at all… but this is the same mental model provided by the so-called atom-based state management systems in React. I believe Jotai is the most popular.
My attempt at monetization is incomplete at this point since it only includes macOS and .deb builds (I’m rarely on a Windows machine anymore). I also haven’t bothered with binary signing yet either. Didn’t seem worth the effort with such a limited audience…
FFuzion CAD - https://ffuzion-cad.cubicle6.com/ - small CSG (constructive solid geometry) CAD app that uses a Lisp variant for defining geometries. Can export to STL for 3D printing.
Send - https://send.cubicle6.com/ - a rough-around-the-edges web-based alternative to AirDrop for getting files from a Windows machine to my iPhone.
Studium - https://studium.cubicle6.com/luke/1 - a minimal web-based Bible reader that uses GPT to extract place from the current chapter and render them on a map. Just started working on this one, so it lacks polish.
Start using version control (git) and put a (probably very simple) CI/CD pipeline in control of deployments. The pipeline might just sftp the files from git to the server; that’s okay. The point is production deployments cannot happen outside of fit commits. (Change server creds if necessary so this cannot be bypassed).
Doing this will put a safety net in place enabling rollbacks, introduce the team to version control, and give you a beachhead for automated testing in the pipeline.
Are there any agentic sales and marketing offerings?
Because being able to reliably hand off that part of the value chain to an agent would close a real gap. (Not sure this can be done in reality)