The temptation to add AI to your product is too damn real 🤯
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My co-founder and I discussed many times in the last few months how it is now technically feasible to release a magical feature for
www.notionapps.com, an app builder for Notion databases.
A feature where we provide a co-pilot AI that generates/customizes an app from plain text.
So how and why are we resisting it?
We are working on an app builder for a new persona of software creators (Notion users), the only one in the market with a Notion integration.
We want to focus on understanding their app requirements and adding core features to create apps for their use cases. Being a small team, our resources are limited and we have to choose our battles wisely.
Having an AI co-pilot will definitely help us in marketing, but we don't have data points if it will lead to high-value apps and conversions.
Also, we don't think any of the app builders will have an unfair advantage by adding an AI co-pilot. More and more tools are adopting it as the models are now accessible to everyone and we are not excited about the first-mover advantage.
Maybe we would have added it if we were in a different phase of building or maybe we will in the future but as of now our tool is choosing not to be artificially intelligent.
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Does your product have scope for AI? If it does and you not working on it, how and why did you decide against it?