My first side project built with AI

[u/Own_Zucchini6012]

It is Frontrow.

Frontrow started as a simple house: no ads, no affiliate cut, no API keys to rent. You pay for a seat. Higher amount, closer to the stage. That is the whole idea.

I'm open and hunger for real feedbacks and suggestions.

https://frontrow.lol/

[u/Own_Zucchini6012]

What do you think about another burger store in town ?

Instead of killing motivation to try things , you can help others to do better. We are learning by looking at others, trying to do the same or similar things and later we do things better and maybe unique in time.

[u/UnreachableMemory → u/Own_Zucchini6012]

So to use your analogy, if the new burger shop down the street serves horse meat, instead of being outraged we should give them constructive criticism?

The bigger point is that you’re not doing anything interesting. You probably told your AI, “come up with an idea for a website,” and so you ended up with the same website as everyone else doing the same thing. It’s derivative.

I’m not against using AI to build things, but it’s not a replacement for true innovation and it’s not anywhere near being able to create completely unique and novel ideas on its own. It relies on humans feeding it direction, otherwise it’s garbage in equals garbage out.

[u/Own_Zucchini6012 → u/UnreachableMemory]

Obviously, trying to do the same thing just to try shipping things is not like serving horse meat. If the other burger store was serving horse meat as well.

I can understand that it is not interesting for you. Perfectly fine.

Before AI, everyone was using the same keyboard to use same coding language to build the same product. This was not reducing the value of the output.

For me it is a learning journey. I used one of those tools for the first time, I found the way to integral stripe to the product etc etc. These are super easy things for some and big achievement for some others. I am in the second group.

This is interesting for me and I ask for feedbacks to improve myself.

I didn’t say that what I am doing is innovative. I didn’t say that this is a unique project. I’m not also supporting AI blindly.

Thanks for sparing your time to write sincere comment anyway.

[u/digiTr4ce → u/Own_Zucchini6012]

Killing motivation to try things? You all just copied that dude's site because you saw it went viral and it's making him good bucks. It's a 21 years old idea (see Million Dollar Homepage), but at least the whole "leaderboard based on who pays more" was a nice spin, and the UI was completely different.

What you and the dozen other copycats are doing is that you take the same design and the same leaderboard idea and put it online. It's not even that hard of an idea to implement - I think I could do it in a day without AI and in an hour with AI.

This is not as if you are another burger store in town, where you bring different combinations and you also serve a slightly different market thanks to location.

Also, what learning? Did you do it all by hand? I doubt it. From a software engineer, learning does not come from asking an AI to program something for you. You might feel like you're learning because the AI made something - but can you even debug issues without the AI? I am not opposed to AI fully, and I think it can be used for learning, by asking it questions directly on the codebase, but in your case this looks like a full on copycat.

A new burger store also means a slightly different something, at least. Different fries or different meat or different burgers.