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My Biggest Fear In Talking to Users – What If They Just Want a Static Website? (Part 1/2)

DEV Community·Cathy Lai·about 4 hours ago
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Reading Notes From the Book "The Mum Test" Now that I've build a clever AI image generation app, everybody will just jump on the chance to try it... Right? As a developer, that's what I'd like to think. I imagine sophisticated architectures, AI integrations, user accounts, databases, cloud infrastructure, clever AI image generation pipelines, system prompt and context engineering, and all the exciting technology that will solve users' problems. Is that What the Users Want? Maybe: They just want to browse a collection of garden makeover photos? They don't want to upload their own property photos? For privacy concerns? They don't want to wait 60 seconds for an AI-generated image? A simple gallery of before-and-after examples solves 90% of their problems? As a developer, that's a surprisingly difficult thought to accept. After all, generating AI garden transformations sounds much more exciting than displaying a set of static images. And that's exactly why it makes me uncomfortable.…

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