Business ideas you can snatch away
Hello and welcome to the new blog
I often don’t write the actual blog nowadays, because I am busy marketing the products I’ve been working on, but today I think to take some time to share a few things as business ideas and what’s working in the market.
Just now at the time of writing, I’ve tried Gemini 3.0 PRO in Google AI Studio, and it was amazing, and most of the predictions are true that software development jobs are at stake, but not all.
Few early adopters will certainly use AI studios and app builders, but most of the businesses in my experience are still working on an old tech-stack and quite a complex source code, which needs human intervention, and those types of people won’t leave the development space.
A few other players, for example, solo entrepreneurs, will increase in the market, and it seems to be increasing day by day. GenZ’s are not able to fit within the existing startups and MNCs ecosystem, and more of them are looking to work for themselves instead of the company.
One good thing about AI creating an entire website is as an idea and creator, one can truly build the idea and quickly bring it into reality. Later part is still the tough one to run a business and survive on it.
AI website builders in 2025 are still only working best for software developers, and being in the domain for 5 years, I’ve found existing developers to use AI code editors for full-fledged production applications; most of them are switching to GitHub Copilot and Cursor because human intervention is needed and required.
But sooner or later, when someone creative product manager in future will amalgamate the existing AI code editors with framer-type drag-and-drop no-code builders, and the rest will become history because most people need an app, they get frustrated when they see code.
Existing AI code editors need some design inspiration and revolution, everytime looking into code to handle the bugs, add new features, scale the code need software development experience hence making them vulnerable to non-software developers and hence we software developers won’t become jobless we will switch to new mode of writing code and most of us will be doing multi-tasking instead of just writing one algorithm and state management for an entire day.
The good part of AI code editors is that we won’t need to remember stupid heavy repetitive DSA, we ain’t need to do the same job again and again for the entire day, we are not here to solve bug problems within the code for 8 hours, we are software developers and we are here to develop software.
I want to bring some solid backing of what I am proposing, and one example is our 2 latest templates
In the AI era, we continue to sell code templates to our clients/customers/users. One can argue that it won’t last for a year. Still, I can bet it will because people running businesses who have money didn’t have time to do this kind of repetitive in other words, it’s not their job; they have other problems to solve.
This one statement gives us the reason to create the code templates still and sell on both of our platforms, iHateReading and gettemplate.website
2 Templates we are talking about are the React CRM template for businesses and the Documentation templates, again for businesses
Nextjs Documentation website template
https://www.gettemplate.website/premium-templates/documentation-website-template
SAAS CRM Dashboard Template
https://www.gettemplate.website/premium-templates/saas-crm-frontend-react-template
My understanding from the sales of our templates
- Customers need more solutions that are easy and quick to integrate in existing ones
- Customer needs support such as email support, WhatsApp or Meeting support
- The customer didn’t have much time to create the same templates again and again; they wanted ready-made solutions
- Customers need proper documentation on how to use the templates or apps
- Customers need quick and cheap updates Running a small code-selling template business brings more opportunities to solve.
For example, when one of the customers for the Nextjs Documentation template put a requirement of an online editor to create his own documentation in real-time, along with source code, quite unusual, but this simple conversation with a customer brought more opportunities and when we asked him why he didn’t use AI tools?
His reply was, We don’t have time, actually, we need to get launched within a week?
And most of the businesses told me the same reason why they want a template, because they don’t have time, because it's boring work, because we provide a cheap and good solution to them, and that brings me a bit of confidence that AI is not taking our jobs unless we have a design revolution.
Vibe coding is fun, but real businesses need some experience that only developers can bring
Developers aren’t going anywhere; they will simply switch to new tools to create apps.
In the era of AI, go deeper and create systems for businesses to solve problems and always start by picking one small problem you can solve for feedback. This process is known as vertical scaling, in which YCombinator is investing a lot in 2025.
One more tweet, I’ve read where a person is sharing the top lists of what people are building nowadays
- AI apps
- Automation Builders
- To-dos, memory apps with AI-enabled
- Customer agents
- AI agent builder
- Mobile apps
- Image generators, video generators
- Content generators
- Browsers
- MCPs
- AI Design creator
- Chatbots But this doesn’t mean that the market is crowded full of these apps, and your next app in this domain won’t work. The app is not important; the design, user experience and marketing matter the most. Make sure users stay on your website/app and actually use it to pay for it in future.
There is one more fight and doubt as a developer often has in mind, and that is whether to put the website/app with Free services or put it behind a paywall.
My experience says it depends, but one can certainly start with a small FREE service like a trial period, and then later on can replace the FREE service with a paid one minimal payment like $5/month.
But if your app can’t really survive on FREE service or provide FREE service, then move to a paid one, add some video and proper documentation to let people trust your service.
I personally love creating websites and solutions, and my strategy is simple as defined below
- Create an app design on paper or Figma
- Add features and AI to see what can be done
- Check market competitors and pricing point because a cheap price and good solution sells faster and ain’t need marketing
- Build the app, try to sell it if it works, collect feedback and increase the customers and market more
- If it doesn’t work, put the app for FREE for others to use to have a 1% of hope that someone will come up to give more ideas around it.
Cheers
Shrey
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