If you need $1M/y in subscriptions to build your software, you'll be outcompete by solos who needs $60k/y and don't care about the 100% churn of a one-time fee.

This is simply market optimization when the marginal cost of producing the good falls.

A web-based level design editor for game devs, Rust-pilled.

In an ideal world, you even not coding to achieve things that help others. Today it's required but it's not the point of a valuable product.

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I agree with you; the more time passes, the harder it is to differentiate from a generalist AI coupled with specialized plugins.

That said, it does activate a lot of opportunities to be part of this future plugin ecosystem.