I think these ephemeral context tailored projects are really great and useful. But these are not to be thought of as products. They work for you specifically, and people who are tech-brained enough to be able to formulate the complex requirements into a coherent prompt are not like the average user you'd have to sell a product to. It's much easier to make software to intelligent users.
You can say much the same about most small SaaS products of the last decade - the value-add isn't the 20 minutes of prompting, it's that someone else has already tested and validated the damn thing.
And yes, you won't sell many to engineers, because they'd rather prompt their own in-house version. But you might well sell to other folks
There’s a gold rush right now. You absolutely can turn these ideas into products.
Right now we're in $1 Uber ride territory. That $20/month OpenAI/Anthropic plan isn't going to last forever. If it's going to cost me $100 in tokens to replicate the product, $20 is a cheap no brainer purchase m