[cynicalpeace]

"There Is No AI Revolution"

Good write-up.

But it focuses too much on the big companies. Many indiehackers have figured out how to make profit with AI:

1. No free tier. Just provide a good landing page.

2. Ship fast. Ship iteratively. Employ no one besides yourself.

3. Profit.

The old silicon valley idea that you need to raise a bunch of money, hire a bunch of devs, and scale a ton to satisfy investors is dying rapidly for software. You can code and profit millions as just a single person company, especially in the age of cursor.

[janoc]

And pretty much most of them just resell OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/Meta's APIs and model access, with something repackaged on top.

And none is remotely profitable.

[cynicalpeace]

Greater than $50k profit per month per employee sounds very profitable to me.

[janoc]

And who actually makes that much?

Or are you counting also VC money into that "profit"?

[cynicalpeace]

levelsio, eric smith, david park, jacob of rezi, etc

[sponnath]

If this were true wouldn't we be seeing a massive devaluation of software? (or alternatively increased demand for complex software)

[cynicalpeace]

It is true because levelsio, eric smith, maker of interviewcoder, etc exist.