The Honest Post-Mortem of an AI Side Project
The story of a developer who spent 7 months building an AI storytelling app, failed to market it, but still landed a job as an AI Engineer thanks to the skills gained.
Why it matters
This story highlights the value of building technical skills through side projects, even if the projects themselves do not succeed commercially.
Key Points
- 1Developed an AI-powered storytelling app called FableWeaver.ai as a side project
- 2Struggled with marketing and failed to gain any users, despite the technical sophistication of the app
- 3Ended up using the AI skills developed for FableWeaver to land a job as an AI Engineer at WeAssist.io
Details
The author, a B.Tech student, built FableWeaver.ai as a weekend project to cope with the stress of finding a full-time job after graduation. Over 7 months, he developed a complex AI system that could maintain context and continuity in interactive storytelling. However, he struggled to market the app to the target community of readers and writers, and ultimately gave up on the project with zero users. Despite this, the technical skills he gained proved invaluable - he was able to use an AI-powered web app he built to automate his job search, which led to him landing an AI Engineer role at WeAssist.io. The author reflects that while FableWeaver.ai failed commercially, it was still the most successful failure of his career, as it directly enabled him to get his dream job.
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