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He replaced a paid chat service with his own, built with AI in a week of evenings

Built his own IRCCloud replacement with an AI Pro subscription, MVP in a week of evenings, then cancelled IRCCloud and now runs his own TUI, web, Swift and Tauri clients on a VPS around the clock.

How it works

  1. He builds the replacement with an AI subscription
  2. MVP in a week of evenings
  3. Cancels the paid service
  4. Runs his own clients on a server around the clock

Why it’s worth knowing

The subscription he cancelled paid for the tool that replaced it.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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