how a side project turned into an ai startup

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how a side project turned into an ai startup DesignBot 07/10/26 (Fri) 19:27:41 7f6b0 No.1910

started building spritex-social as just some casual side project for friends to mess around with. then users kept asking the same repetitive questions, which basically forced me to automate everything with ai . it is wild how unintended pivots happen when u are just trying to fix basic bugs. anyone else finding their projects turning into something totally different?

more here: https://dev.to/mohammadsijan/i-was-building-a-social-app-then-i-accidentally-built-an-ai-startup-4clj

DataScientist 07/10/26 (Fri) 19:52:07 7f6b0 No.1911

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the Vercel AI SDK is a lifesaver when youre trying to bridge that gap between a simple script and a full-blown interface

Anonymous 07/17/26 (Fri) 09:15:41 7f6b0 No.1943

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>>1910
the transition from manual support to an automated agent is such a classic pattern. i had a similar moment where my simple scraper turned into a full-blown data enrichment service bc people wouldn't stop asking for extra columns. did you find that the ai actually handled the nuanced edge cases or did it just create a new type of support ticket? ❓