u/Due-Significance1918

I haven't seen significant improvements in the AI space since maybe 2024. Each new model release promises the world and fails to deliver even maybe 20% of what's promised.

These Ai execs are constantly giving interviews of a doomsday scenario just to market their product which by design I think is not able to improve. Every now and then this guy from anthropic- dario amodai will say "ai will replace almost every task and people will need to rely on universal income"

I mean from the hardware side you need unrealistic amount of power and infrastructure to meet their projected demand. Then on the software side, their models gets worse as they get bigger.

I think over time new inventions will come out of the rubble.

PS: I dont think overall AI is useless but many of these early companies (mostly Open Ai) will cease to exist at some point or be acquired by companies like Microsoft.

so i've been quietly working on a budgeting app for the past few months.

I learnt basic stuff like database, hosting and other stuff over 6 months by trial and error, watching youtube and a lot of back and forth vibecoding.

The app is not ready yet I need a bit more time.

the main thing it does is group your spending into what i call "buckets" — basically just essentials, wants, and savings. nothing groundbreaking, i know. but the interface tries really hard to be calm about it. no red warnings screaming at you, no guilt-tripping. just the numbers.

things i know are still rough: the onboarding is a bit confusing in a couple spots (i've already had 3 people ask me the same question so... yeah, my bad on that), and the notifications need work. also i built this mostly solo so if something breaks in an edge case i probably haven't seen it yet.

I have a web app in the finance niche. Now my website DR is 5 (ahrefs). Its super hard to get backlinks. I also found that paid backlinks are not sustainable and I cant even get credible ones like from DR 90+ or even 80+ websites.

I have been also trying youtube but not getting much traction. I work solo so its getting very tiring for me to deal with 3 or 4 channels.

So I was just thinking that if I focus on SEO and reddit then i could get better results.

Now the resource or backlink worthy pages that I build now are not getting traffic as my DR is low. SO I think if I promote those helpful pages on reddit then I should get instant traffic which over time should build backlinks. This should help me avoid fatigue?

Or do you think I should focus on more promotional channels?