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Hacker News verdict · build

A SaaS tool that helps software developers maintain their coding skills and passion in the face of rapid AI adoption and changing industry dynamics.

Built for Software developers who are feeling frustrated by the rise of AI-powered tools and feeling like their core skills are becoming less valuable..

The receipts — real demand

“First fancy LLMs, then image generation, then assistants, then agents… When will this end? I’m tired of this hype. Everytime I open HN, or any other community based platform, everyone is talking about AI. Why does this ick me? Am I alone? Simply because i’ve spent my past years, learning how to code, building stuff, reading docs, debugging, scraping through stackoverflow etc…. Am I just, jealous? Or is it really a ba…”
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Others echoing it

“how is that not obviously subjective. if a coder is saying they enjoy coding what's the point in gaslighting them.”

“While engineering managers are enamored with the thing, it will go on. But, the agentic development will ruin multiple companies and become unfashionable. Bet on your skills, taste, and intuition. Don’t fall into fomo.”

“You are not alone. Nobody asked me either, if I want this. I don't want this. AI-bots make us worse at thinking for ourselves. I cannot think of a worse fate for us all. Thousands of years of effort to improve our collective mind, our ”

6.2 / 10 · demand score
Pain 7
Willingness to pay 3
Specificity 7
Audience 7
Competition 1

Why this is a gap

Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.