I don't think that is true, if your only work at your job is coding, you should be afraid but most folks don't just code, they engineer solutions. In that way, AI can't destroy jobs anytime soon.
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When OpenAI launched ChatGPT, it was almost a god sent for me. Since day one, I completely relied on it to improve my emails, posts, messages, and tweets occasionally.
However, there is a little bit friction - having to jump between tabs to say what I wanted to say. The overall process is automatable. So, I fantasized about building a Chrome extension to improve the process for a while. And finally put some time aside to got it together.
The popular writing tools right now are so intrusive with constant popups, I wanted something that can fix my writing at a one-off click, no distraction.
I offer all the features at $5/mo for unlimited writing. No need to constantly shill the upgrade notice with popups. And I hope to keep it that way forever.
I think it needs a lot of trust before people can start posting on our platform. For example- Upwork has built the reputation for that. So, bootstrappers like ourselves can't survive that period. I think that's the reason for my failure while creating that platform.
Small suggestion: you are calling it upwork but no signups for devs is a real bummer. If you aren't ready to take outside devs yet, at least put a waiting list where devs can put their email and other info to be contacted later.
But luckily, there are many companies that actually prefer to hire employees from anywhere and are fully globally remote. The problem is discovery because most big remote job boards actually prefer Remote/US jobs as there is lot of money in it.
I built a simple app to curate fully globally remote jobs for global talent to find jobs: https://realworkfromanywhere.com/
Hope it is useful.
If you want to follow the whole journey, please read this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/nithurM/status/1636024450960302080?s=20
On March 15, I had a weird idea to put GPT-4 on every textbox on the internet. Because we can simplify a lot of boring tasks if we can able to bring AI into them. For example: customer support chats, social media content writing, email writing, localizing support chats, Google sheet formulas, MySQL queries with natural language, etc. We can do all this without leaving our fav sites.
But there is a complication, if we need to do this wide variety of tasks, we need a complicated UI right inside our favorite sites, which is not a very good idea in my opinion. End users aren't going to like it. So, I come up with an idea to overcome it. We can use commands to prompt AI. For example: "gen: write a LinkedIn post about generative AI". We can consolidate a lot of tasks with such simple commands.
So, I started coding the initial version and was able to come up with a working prototype within a few hours. I recorded a GIF and shared it on Twitter that night. It blew up on Twitter and dragged me a good number of sales over the night. I priced it at $9.99 for the first 24 hours. Most people encouraged me to increase the price because it is definitely worth it. So, I gradually increased the price to $19, then to $29, and finally $49.
Exactly after 7 days, I've made $6,835 with this GIF image.
I had 500 followers on Twitter when I first shared the GIF, now it has grown to 3200 followers. This little project literally changed my perspective on internet entrepreneurship in many ways. The old idea of validation with an MVP has literally died, people are willing to pay if you can show a demo. When I first shared this project and made a couple of thousands of dollars, I don't even have a domain name or website for this project.
If you are working on any side project, I am sincerely encouraging you to show it to the world. And start charging money for it. It'll literally change the game. Good luck.