ethantheswe
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I mean there's a world where generative ai becomes good enough to literally do it all, and then we're all screwed. But let's assume that's not the case as it isn't today. It feels like there's no point of reflection. Do people just continue to value their time less and less? Does the problems we sell need to be THAT difficult? It feels like in a few years the only problems worth solving will be problems where we need phd level engineers to solve.
Consumer saas being anything like a real consumer product. Games, fintech apps, task apps, etc. My product specifically is in a grey area of b2b vs b2c because it's for early stage founders/pre revenue companies. So arguably b2b but very upstream.
This is kind of a really interesting thing I haven't thought about... My ICP is founders, people using lovable/etc, and people trying to get their first dollars. It's a marketing and distribution product, which a lot of founders struggle doing, but you raise a really good point that my ICP is literally the same person that thinks they can build everything themselves.
Sure but does this mean that consumer saas or anything that's more trivial then thousands of hours of eng work is essentially dead?
What if they can't actually solve it themselves though? The solution I'm building works significantly better than something you can throw together with n8n in a few hours, but people's perceptions are all that matters. The pain is real, but the way we measure success (especially for consumers) doesn't necessarily have to match reality.
I should also state, I have customers and I have competitors. This isn't necessarily something that isn't worth solving. I'm just noticing over the last 6 months it's becoming increasingly common for people to 'believe' they can do this with claude more and more. Whether they can or not, and whether its worth their time or not, the perception is increasingly that the value of one's own time doesn't matter.
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ethantheswe on Monday April 27, 2026 @09:58AM
from the self-post dept.
There’s a weird paradigm right now where people don’t value their own time anywhere close to what it’s actually worth. This has always been true to a degree, but AI seems to have pushed it into overdrive.I keep running into “why can’t I just build this with Claude?”And it’s like… yeah, you probably can? I’ve put ~100 hours into getting an MVP working and trying to market it at around 30-50...
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ethantheswe on Saturday March 07, 2026 @05:00PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/danielthedm/browse2mcp
Built browse2mcp to automatically create an mcp server by opening a broswer. I built it because there's a few website's I use on a regular basis that were super annoying to try to get to work with Claude. Note: this is mostly vibe coded with a few touch ups.How it works:Run browse2mcp to record and a browser opens, you use the site normallyClose the browser, all API requests are savedRun...
Really hope someone gives it a try and gives feedback! Especially if they try it using fly.
Posted by
ethantheswe on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:15PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/danielthedm/clicknest
I've been building a bunch of random side projects, as I'm sure we all are. Most analytics tools were either too heavy or required juggling multiple free tiers across different subdomains.After looking what's out there I couldn't find a lightweight analytics platform that worked on the free tier of fly.io.It's a single Go binary using DuckDB for events and SQLite for metadata, so there are no...