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Developer shares three lessons from shipping small AI side projects to real users

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A developer describes spending three weeks building an overly complex AI app that never launched, which they call a failure born of 'kitchen counter syndrome.' Over the following two months they shifted approach and released three AI side projects to actual users. The first, a git commit message generator, was reduced from a planned dashboard with accounts and billing to a simple command-line script that now gets daily use by a few dozen developers. The author concludes that the smallest version of an idea that solves the problem should ship first, since every pre-launch feature delays feedback. The piece continues with a second project, a voice memo transcription tool for notes recorded while walking a dog.

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