Developer Shares Lessons from Shipping Three AI Side Project MVPs

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A developer describes building over a dozen AI side projects, of which only three reached real users within two months. Their first project, a meeting-notes summarizer, stalled after weeks spent on fine-tuning, vector databases, and frontend polish rather than user needs. Their second project, a tool that extracts decisions from Slack conversations, was built in 48 hours as a single API call and attracted sixteen users in its first week. The developer concludes that stripped-down, "sad path" versions that solve a concrete problem matter more than sophisticated infrastructure, and reports modest API costs for the projects.

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