Built in Three Prompts and an Hour: Why "I Wanted This to Exist" Now Justifies Software
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-10-06
Colin Armstrong's essay "Worth building" argues LLMs have changed the math on personal software: annoyance alone can now justify building. His example: frustrated by SEO-driven domain lookup tools, he used Claude Code — three prompts, about an hour — to ship heade.rs on Cloudflare with DNS/registration records, live latency, email config and HTTPS details, polished all day and costing less than a coffee a month to run. Free from needing to sell anything, it can simply be good. Expect far more software whose entire business case is "I wanted this to exist."
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