Builder says AI killed his profitable side-project flipping business — building is easy, selling is not
RichardsonDx · x · 2026-10-10
Indie maker Ian Nuttall says AI killed his lucrative business model of building profitable side projects and flipping them: "The building part still works but selling is almost impossible now." As AI makes it trivial for anyone to build similar products, the market for buying finished projects has evaporated. Commenters asked how he found buyers back then.
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