I find the writing style a little bit annoying, like reading 3:30am discord message from one of the people I mentor, but I understand it was written as they developed the product? Maybe some editing would have been nice. Maybe using a thesaurus to find some other swearwords to keep it fresh (I'm only half joking).
There is something in there which definitely confirms some beliefs I personally had about people who make such kinds of "startup-y" closed source products. Consider the following quotes from the article:
> I’m trying to convert a curl I found into an Axios function
> some tweaking using chatGTP
> hour spent trying to convert TWO LINES OF PYTHON INTO NODE.JS [...] GTP chat can’t even do it
> spent 1 hour doing research and using GTP to convert the Python code [...] into node
- Commit messages such as "aaazaez" and "aaa"
> I even was able to fully set up AWS S3 using ChatGTP
> sold the app for $65,000
The next few paragraphs may be a little harsh, but I can't help it.
The most surprising part to me was the absolute lack of explanation or even basic excitement about the inner workings of the AI, or any of the technical details in general. To me, this demonstrates a lack of understanding, or even interest, in the core tech of their product. Being able to explain something is generally the number one sign someone understands what they're doing, and this article does nothing but brag and admit to simply feeding everything to ChatGPT.
It confirms my belief that some of these startup-y products, with their shiny UIs, are likely complete and utter horseshit in terms of testability, readability, and likely only work at all because of very lenient tooling and a lick of luck.
There are a lot of things one could have spent time on during the development of such a product, but really, it shouldn't be "converting python to node" for multiple hours, especially when the core AI part took ~5 hours. It's easy to say when you, like me, have never launched a product that made 65k, but it also is not something you (the possibly unqualified reader) should base your workflow off of.
It's very impressive that it worked for them, and that they were able to capitalize on it, and I think 65k can be a load of money depending on where you live. Don't let this cloud your judgement in thinking you can build a high quality app that will actually last more than one major dependency update into the future.
Whoever bought it for 65k either 1) has the money to throw away, or 2) got shafted.