I'm a fucking newbie, still, I tried to learn code, I know some, not a lot. I'm familiar with concepts, but not what "used to be". You senior devs grew up coding in notepad and apache and sql, I grew up with modern frameworks AND am growing up realizing even THAT isn't necessary. AI has grown so much. I have talked to senior devs, and while they say people checking ai won't be replaced I can't help but disagree.

What do senior devs do when they don't know what's wrong? Let me hear you say you search the web for a solution someone posted long ago. Let me hear how you still, in this ai day and era, try to fix a bug for 6 hours. You turn to ai too. You use it the same way as the vibecoders. It's just experience. And I see people so confident that experience makes you safe from ai but I believe it's only a matter of time when your experience becomes obsolete. After all it's just information you gathered thoughout years.

And some platforms are paying senior devs to correct code made by ai, to train it. Some of you are giving away that 10+ years experience. It's buyable. Anything can be bought. And just like any stacks from before, AI will be free/affordable for 5-10 years until us newbies depend on it for fast clean code. And then they'll raise the price.

Historically this happened with any major platform or software and it's going to be the same.

And because this isn't ragebait enough, whatever you learned 30 years ago, is obsolete. Whatever I learn now even on my own (old stuff, new stuff, doesn't matter) will be obsolete in maybe 5 years of more AI fast paced development.

Mind my words we'll have holograms for calls, VR for social media, flying cars (in maybe 20 30 years because it's a structural, societal, architectural change) and robots inside the house for tasks like we own coffee machines. In the 50's you brewed the coffee, now you own a machine. You washed clothes by hand then using the washing machine. You run errands until your robot can do it for you. You mop the floor and fold clothes until the robot can do it for you (Tesla robot already released just not comercially for the masses) We have self driving cars. We have AI agents that can do anything you can do on your computer.

Should I spoil the surprise?

Maybe not entirely. You know how you find something you like and you save it but instagram saves remain on insta tiktok collections are only on tiktok?

This is for saving stuff in 1 place.

But to be honest I'll add a bunch of other things because it's so versatile and me myself I need to note down everyday life stuff too besides saving things like recipes

[usegiftlist.com/download](http://usegiftlist.com/download)

You'll have to wait for me to add you if you use android, and pin it to your home screen as a shortcut if you have iphone

! If you wanna be added faster drop a comment! I check reddit more than my emails lol

Seriously. Cold emailing didn't work. Posting about it didn't work. I'm left with A) paid ranking inside shopify app store or B) paid posts to gain more visibility

And before you say anthing about the product pipeline - yes I maximized that as much as possible. Thumbnails, video, description. Tutorial (impossible to miss), automatic setup, contact/help pages. I just have no installs and found no working funnel.

I feel like I'm being pushed towards ads.

Hey r/SideProject

After more of my perfectionistic fixing, it's finally live!

I hate the name but for now Giftlink is a modified, better wishlist/gift registry. An actually useful one. Drag and drop on any Shopify store 3 buttons: Save, View wishlist, Send wishlist. Then, when a customer sends their wishlist to a friend, the friend can sign up for a reminder (3, 7 or 30 days before that birthday). when the time comes, the friend gets an email with the saved products and a direct link to buy them as a gift from the shopify store.

So it's a wishlist that actually drives sales - not just a "save for later" feature that sits there forever.

Why I built it: I kept seeing Shopify stores with normal wishlsit but let's be real nobody uses those- what even is their use?? Nobody can see what I saved, and if they can, they'll forget in the next 5 seconds. People save stuff, share it, and forget about it. The birthday reminder angle solves that — it gives someone else a reason to come back and buy, at exactly the right time. And as a customer, it actually gets me exactly what I wanted for my birthday.

What was hard:

• Getting the email timing right (timezones are a nightmare)
• Making the setup dead simple — I want store owners to install it in under 3 minutes but there's a lot happening under the hood
• Deciding to stop building and start marketing (I'm still fighting this one)

Where I am now: Just launched publicly. 3 installs at the time you may see this post. Starting cold outreach this week. I have had no idea emails need warming up so I don't come off as a spammer, yikes.

I'm not sure if it still has bugs, after thousands of checks, it shouldn't, but I've set up my little dev box on the admin dashboard so anything you write ends up in my database as a comment. Could be a simple "Need help, can't find the buttons" or a "I sent a list but the number won't show up" (an uncaught bug which I get to fix because you guys pointed it out)

I'd love feedback on the concept, especially what's hard in using it if you want to give it a go. The app is called Giftlink — Birthday Reminders on the Shopify App Store.