u/DiscrepancyAnalyst

Been trying to find a genuinely useful AI personal assistant for stuff like notes, tasks, calendar, emails, reminders, contacts, etc. but there are so many AI tools now that it’s hard to tell what people are actually sticking with long term.

would love to hear real experiences from people who’ve been using one consistently. what actually became useful in daily life and what ended up being more gimmick than helpful?

also trying to avoid the super early “vibe-coded” AI products that disappear a few months later 😅 ideally looking for tools that feel stable and likely to still exist a year from now.

I’m currently evaluating whether it makes more sense to build an internal event-driven billing system or adopt an existing usage-based billing platform.

The setup is a bit nuanced. We already have pricing rules and product catalogs in place, but contracts can have their own pricing structures, and pricing changes shouldn’t affect older agreements. Usage events come from internal systems, billing is consumption-based, and we also need reporting/export capabilities plus decent Salesforce integration.

What’s making this harder is that billing itself isn’t really our core product or differentiator. It’s more of an operational/supporting system, so I’m trying to avoid creating a giant maintenance burden if buying would realistically get us 80-90% there.

At the same time, some of the contract-specific pricing/versioning logic feels like the kind of thing that becomes painful once you try to force it into off-the-shelf tools.

curious how others approached this decision and where the biggest tradeoffs showed up once things scaled.