[unsungNovelty]

This is precisely the problem as well no?

LLMs will have limited seats for external urls. So they will eventually go for paid urls OR even organically, it logically makes sense for them to prioritise StackOverflow, Reddit, Quora kind of sites instead of independent websites. It will wield more advertising power to do this. Following money makes sense?

This is just waiting for the dust to settle in I guess.

[ulinycoin]

That's a very valid concern, especially for content-heavy sites (blogs, wikis). If an LLM can summarize the answer, the user has no reason to click.

However, I suspect there's a distinction between Information and Utilities.

An LLM can summarize a StackOverflow discussion on "how to compress a PDF," but it cannot (yet) reliably perform the heavy client-side processing to actually do it securely in the browser without uploading data.

For tools and utilities, the "click" is still necessary to perform the action. My bet is that AI will act more as a dispatcher for specific tasks ("Go here to fix X") rather than just a summarizer.

But you're right — once LLMs get native, sandboxed execution environments, even tools might get absorbed.

[unsungNovelty]

Cool. But where does your indie product/website page come into this though?

[ulinycoin]

I think indie products win on specific constraints.

If a user prompts generic stuff like "best pdf editor", the AI will likely route them to Adobe or the paid giants.

But users often prompt with constraints: "compress pdf locally", "convert pdf without uploading", or "pdf tools no signup".

That's where the indie product fits in. The big incumbents usually require uploads (for data harvesting) or logins (for growth). By strictly adhering to "privacy-first / local-only", my site satisfies a constraint that the big players structurally cannot.

The AI seems to recognize that distinction.