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Re:Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production managem... by ericmcer on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @11:42AM (#46888066)
I don't think it will ever really happen because of ownership.

Sure this is awesome now and maybe he shipped it in a week using AI or something, but he now owns a critical part of his wife's business. 5 years from now he is gonna be working 50/hrs a week and not want to deal with this project he barely remembers even doing, whenever an SSL cert goes bad or the CC he was paying the server bills with expires or actual bugs happen he is on the line for it.

It is lame to let family/friends pay $20/mo for something you could build in a few weeks, but they will own the product forever, I don't want to.

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Re:Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production managem... by nobody_r_knows on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:31PM (#46888723)
I wonder if a very simple moltbot can do the ongoing development on its own. I mean, the hard work is mostly out of the way. This isn't so out of the realm of capability.
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Re:Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production managem... by newswasboring on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:33PM (#46888767)
It doesn't have to be this messy. If I were the maker I would treat this as a good first version and transfer the ownership to the business slowly. This is just like working with any consultant.
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Re:Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production managem... by yunohn on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:09PM (#46892542)
The business is run by his wife, and if they had a SWE(-like) already, that person would’ve made this. But instead, the husband did and now owns it. He also open sourced it, so he has to live with the inevitable consequences of that too.
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Re:Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production managem... by bdcravens on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:42PM (#46888903)
Many times we're already on the hook anyways, supporting friends/family even when they are using someone else's product.
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Re:Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production managem... by k1rd on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:42PM (#46890617)
in 5 years whatever ai tools will be good enough to have ownership of a critical piece of software that was built now by ai.
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