AI Apps Are EVERYWHERE

I get it. I really do. Everyone and his dog is out there, vibe-coding wrappers around ChatGPT, trying to monetize making a prompt on someone else’s behalf. Good luck to them. But people are getting bored with it.

I never set out to build an AI app

SayDo isn’t a wrapper around AI. Honestly. I had the idea for a single destination of truth for integrated services first. I spent a fair bit of my career writing software integrations for a living, it’s in my blood. Sending the user’s idea off to an LLM for processing was a complete afterthought. It makes things much more streamlined for the user, but if LLMs, and programmatic access to them disappeared tomorrow, SayDo could still be built. It’d be a bit clunkier, and the structure of your prompts would need to be more prescriptive, but it would work.

I’m a software engineer for a living, I didn’t look at generative AI and think “Oh cool, a business opportunity!” I looked at is as a tool to make my life as a software engineer easier. For example, by leaning on its strengths at natural language processing.

Just how much of SayDo IS AI and how much isn’t?

Virtually none of it is. One API call, maybe a follow-up to a stronger model if the first one fails. That’s it.

• Allowing you to sign up with a number of authentication providers
• Capturing and persisting your ideas so you can see your history
• Billing
• Usage limits so bad actors can’t spam the LLM and cause problems
• A pretty rich admin console
• Metrics
• Security to keep your data safe from prying eyes
• This blog

The list goes on. All of that is real functionality, and none of it uses AI. On purpose.

So how much of it is AI? The bit that turns YOUR prompt into an action SayDo can execute. One API call. Maybe two.