I built some small tools and browser extensions for myself that I use daily. But honestly, I wouldn't have paid for those anyway — maybe a one-time small purchase, but never a subscription.
Curious if others had a different experience. Did you cancel something because chat with LLMs replaced it? Or did you build your own thing and make a paid tool redundant?
My current bet is that the value isn't in generating the invoice itself (AI can do that), but in the persistent data layer — tracking who owes you, what's overdue, monthly income trends, client history. That's the part that's hard to replicate with a one-off prompt.
But honestly, the line keeps moving. A year ago I would have said "AI can't replace a full dashboard" and now... I'm less sure.
Grammarly - ChatGPT and Claude are way better, and much more customizable. If I were a human editor I'd be very worried.
On the flip side, using ChatGPT for diagrams made me pay for Mermaid. It might only be a one year subscription.
Proofreaders, perhaps. But spellcheckers are superior, free, battle-tested, and ubiquitous anyway, yet people still can't be troubled to use them. As proof, behold comments on any given HN post.
True, LLMs can convert style — but so far I've found that the edits always pick up an LLM smell.
My pet hypothesis is that genuine upper-echelon writing, editing, and taste-making will become even more valuable than before.
I don't know any student that really uses it now.
Can you tell us more?
In similar news I'll probably stop the tab suggestions in GH Copilot now and just agent all the things.