u/PragatiChoubey2005

I do not always use image generators when I need a finished image.

Sometimes the biggest value is simply being able to test an idea visually before deciding whether it is worth pursuing.

Midjourney is interesting in that sense because AI image generation turns visual brainstorming into something extremely fast.

You used it a lot for one month.

Then less often.

Now it's been three months since you opened it.

But cancelling feels like admitting you made a bad purchase.

Meanwhile, the subscription quietly renews again.

One tool for writing, coding, images, research, productivity, etc. sounds convenient.

But specialized tools can sometimes do one thing much better.

What's your setup like?

A lot of AI tools look amazing when everyone is talking about them, but most eventually get forgotten.

I want to know about the ones that actually stayed useful for you.

What is still sitting in your daily workflow months later?

I usually try a tool for its main feature and ignore everything else. Then randomly one small feature turns out to be more useful than the thing I actually signed up for.

Has that happened with any AI tool you use?

I am trying to find some genuinely useful AI tools that are worth keeping around.

Does not matter if it is popular or completely unknown. Just drop the one you use the most and tell me what you use it for.

Every time I think I have a decent list of tools I know, another one pops up.

And then comes the annoying part: figuring out whether it actually does something useful or just has a nice landing page.

How do you guys decide which new AI tools are worth trying? Do you test them yourself, wait for reviews, or mostly ignore new releases until someone recommends one?

I usually get impatient and just test the thing myself 😂

But I have definitely wasted time on tools that looked amazing until I actually used them.

Do reviews influence your decision, or do you prefer trying everything yourself?

Those are probably my favorite kind of tools.

No huge list of features, no complicated setup. It just handles one annoying task and does it properly.

What is your best example?

I save tools with the intention of testing them later.

Then I forget about most of them and keep using the same few.

Does anyone else have a ridiculous collection of AI tools sitting in bookmarks?

I like finding these unexpected use cases because sometimes a tool can be surprisingly good at things it was never really marketed for.

Have you discovered an unusual way to use an AI tool that actually worked?

Not necessarily the biggest or most popular one. Maybe you found something recently that solved a specific problem really well and barely see anyone talking about it. Share the tool and tell us what makes it useful.

i recently found a feature buried inside a tool I had been using for ages.

It was exactly the kind of thing I had needed before, which made me wonder how many other useful features I have completely missed.

Has this happened to you?

I started doing this just out of curiosity, but it actually helps reveal which tools are better for certain tasks.

The differences can be pretty surprising even when both claim to do the same thing.

Do you compare results like this?

Not because the task was difficult, but because you had zero motivation to start it.

I have found that getting AI to handle the boring first step can make the rest feel much easier.

What kind of task has AI helped you finally get done?