eibrahim

I have been running my business for years and haven’t worked on a client team/project for a while. It blew my mind how badly devs are with AI tools after joining a relatively big team in a company that is heavily invested in AI-first. It’s not a software company or even a tech company.

One example is we were in a meeting with 4 devs debating and implementation of a feature. I kept quiet but I didn’t want to over promise but the general consensus was that it would take 2 to 4 weeks to implement said feature. I finished it 1.5 hour after the meeting and sent the client a video demo. He was blown away and couldn’t believe how fast I did it.

I told him it was all AI and gave him all the warnings that it’s a POC and needs testing blah blah.

So how the heck did 3 other devs think it was going to take 4 weeks??? I know they all use the same tools I use. Is it experience? Do they not know how to use the tools right? Do they need training?

PS: sorry for any typos. Wrote on my phone while half awake

I have a semi-working desktop email client that works with gmail and outlook and uses local AI to add AI magic to your inbox without sending it to openai or claude or gemini.

The app is geared towards developers with lots of dev-friendly features. It's not ready yet, and my plan was to sell it for 100 bucks or so...

It's working and I am using it daily but there are still a lot of bugs.

It's a pretty huge undertaking, and I have been debating whether I should open source it or not. Any thoughts?

Can I still sell the app after I open source it? Would you pay for it? Would you contribute to it?

Thanks in advance.

I have been cranking out apps for the past few years and loving it. Then one morning a week or 2 ago I got a little ambitious and decided to build a desktop email client because outlook was so-so and superhuman was ridiculously expensive.

Is this a big mistake? Am I wasting my time ?

So far I have Microsoft and Google working and I can do the normal email interaction read, reply, archive etc. I also got local AI working and training on your emails (all local).

Let me know your thoughts.

PS: my target audience is developers not the general public

I built an app for personal marketing using electron and then it inspired me to build other apps, so I took what I learned and put together a desktop starter app and open sourced it.

It saves a lot of time trying to get things up and running. It also has built in automatic updates using github releases and CI/CD to auto release new versions.

It's bare bones intentionally.

I built an app for personal marketing using electron and then it inspired me to build other apps, so I took what I learned and put together a desktop starter app and open sourced it.

It saves a lot of time trying to get things up and running. It also has built in automatic updates using github releases and CI/CD to auto release new versions.

It's bare bones intentionally - check it out at https://github.com/dotnetfactory/desktop-starter-app