Worth Building
2 hours ago
- LLMs have shifted the cost-benefit curve, making it worthwhile to build small personal tools to fix annoyances.
- The author built heade.rs, a domain lookup tool, in about an hour using Claude Code at minimal cost, purely for personal satisfaction.
- Before LLMs, such a project would require more justification and likely involve commercialization to cover the effort.
- Modern AI tools enable anyone to quickly turn a small annoyance into a polished app, even for a single user.
- Cheaper software means more projects are created, but visibility (e.g., search ranking) still requires a reason for others to care.
- The story behind a shared project, like Paragraph, can lead to unexpected growth, but it's also fine if a tool remains only for personal use.