Almost every single blockchain "product" (outside of the peer-to-peer trustless currency ) could have been a database.

This time the cost of entry of small software products has cratered.

For example, I was able to knock up a tool for a guide-maker for a niche game I play that gets about 500 peak daily players on steam.

The entire motivation for the tool is because I personally struggle to follow their well written guide. It takes a reasonable amount of focus and care to adjust a bunch of settings between "runs" based on the guide as written. Getting one of these wrong can set you back a bunch of time without even realising what went wrong.

These settings have an import/export feature in game, but that only allows for a few saved presets, and isn't easy to share.

So I've made a tool that lets people create, organise and share these presets.

Literally the only user is likely to be this single guide maker. Possibly a few others might use it to consume their guides.

Without claude-code, it would never have been reasonable for me to invest the time to make the tool. It would have been an idle dream sitting on my "I wish I had the discipline to make this" pile.

But I don't have the discipline to make that kind of project. I'm too easily distracted, and I'd have got bored of the idea before I'd finished establishing all the boilerplate, let alone before ironing out all the bugs. I also don't have the front-end talent to make things look pretty with CSS.

The LLM doesn't get demotivated. It doesn't get bored, and compressed the building of the prototype down to a day or two. Enough to keep my interest until feedback arrived. A week later, and it's shipped with 50+ issues raised and fixed.