We’ve all heard the AI hype promises—has it actually led to you trying to build your own tools?
Hey everyone,
We’ve all heard the massive AI hype promises by now, but I want to know if it has actually led to you trying it out yourself.
Do you even know what kind of AI building tools are available to you right now, or what's actually possible for a regular business?
A lot of us are stuck either stitching together messy spreadsheets, or paying a ton of money for a "stitch and glue" off-the-shelf software stack that still forces you to change your actual business processes just to fit the tool—instead of building a tool around your ideal process.
If you’ve actually taken matters into your own hands and tried to use AI (like ChatGPT, Claude, or anything else) to build a custom solution for your day-to-day operations, I want to know the raw reality of how it went:
- Where did it fail? Did the AI build something that worked great at first, but then completely broke the moment you asked it to add a new feature or change a rule? If you didn't know how to code your way out of it, did you just abandon the whole project?
- Is there an educational gap? Do you feel like you just need better instructions on how to explain your business workflow to an AI? If someone gave you a perfect guide on how to think about your business steps so the AI gets it right, would you actually want to do it yourself? Or is managing a custom tool just too much extra headache when you already have a business to run?
- The launching wall: If you actually managed to get the tool working perfectly on your own desktop screen, what happened next? Did you hit a dead end trying to figure out how to put it online securely so your employees could log in and use it on their phones?
- What are you trying to fix? What were you actually trying to build? Are you trying to make public apps for your customers, or are you just desperate for unsexy internal tools—like a custom schedule tracker, an inventory monitor, or a simple dashboard to sync your data?
If you’ve tried this, what did you try to make, where did it go wrong, and what stopped your team from actually using it?