Indie dev Ian Nuttall: AI killed my profitable build-and-flip side project business
iannuttall · x · 2026-10-09
Developer Ian Nuttall (81K followers) says AI killed his lucrative business model of building profitable side projects and selling them: the building part still works, but selling is now nearly impossible, as the market floods with AI-generated projects. A stark data point on AI's impact on indie maker economics.
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