Anyone else feel like AI is making it harder to even want to ship your app?
I’ve been building a fitness app since late March. Almost every single day. Long nights, redesigns, UI polishing, the whole thing. Probably 12–14 hours a day on average, maybe 5 days off total. A few hundred dollars in licenses and tools. All because the app I wanted didn’t exist, so I made it.
And the closer I get to shipping, the more I start asking myself... is it even worth it? Not because I don’t believe in it. I’m actually excited to use it myself. But there’s this voice in the back of my head like… is it just going to get drowned out? Is anyone even going to care?
I feel like the pace of AI makes it worse. The gap between “I have an idea” and “I built a thing” is closing fast, for everyone. Which is cool, but it also makes everything feel noisier.
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just fear. Maybe it’s the long nights catching up. But I feel like I can’t be the only one sitting on something they built and wondering if it matters.
What’s keeping you going? Or did you find a way to reframe it?
(And yeah, I used AI to help write this. Could I have typed out 500+ words of scattered thoughts and made my point just as clean? Probably not, but I’d rather try to clean the yap to a minimum 😭😅