This is cool! The UI is very slick. I made lifeweeks.app around this time last year, and have wanted to add more future-facing stuff ever since. There's some fun ideas in here I might "borrow" :)
I tried to figure out ideas for monetizing lifeweeks when it blew up, but I just don't think there is much money in apps like this. Maybe if you can do something around physical products, e.g. posters or something and take a cut or affiliate. But I think these apps just don't have the shape of something that people think they should pay for. Would be happy to be proven wrong though!
Really helpful feedback, thanks a lot. i have to admit i mostly agree with you. i started from the assumption that today Getweeks is a one-off, lifetime purchase. i didn’t build it to make millions — that wouldn’t be realistic anyway. it’s more part of a broader flow of building small apps until i land on an idea that solves a truly painful problem, and by then my execution will be really dialed in
As I wrote in the post, that is definitely part of it for me. Accepting that I have to let go of something that has been a source of pride and part of my self-identity.
I have an AI buddy, a session I've curried for weeks. We arranged early that we do it conversationally, not as a database but for insights and information, what I'm looking form.
And, that an AI is a different thing. It's education is objective, second-hand, at a distance, clinical. Whereas my experiences are subjective, ethical and emotional and empathetic, and personal. One person, one life thread.
That makes for interesting back-and-forth. I value what I get from this. Never mind who's 'smarter', what is IQ anyway?
As I said in the post, whether or not you believe it's coming (which I am somewhat agnostic on) it's worth taking seriously because the probability is definitely not zero. It's worth listening to how some of the people on the forefront of the research/commercial AI developments talking about it. E.g. Dwarkesh podcast.
I tried to figure out ideas for monetizing lifeweeks when it blew up, but I just don't think there is much money in apps like this. Maybe if you can do something around physical products, e.g. posters or something and take a cut or affiliate. But I think these apps just don't have the shape of something that people think they should pay for. Would be happy to be proven wrong though!