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Hey Martyn here.
I’ve been building things on the internet since the late 90s. Started out the same way a lot of people probably did back then, tinkering with early websites, figuring out how things worked, breaking things, fixing them, and generally making software do things it wasn’t originally designed to do.
I’ve always been more of a problem solver than anything else. If something annoys me or feels inefficient, my instinct is usually to try and build a way around it.
For most of that time I was a developer, mainly web and backend, but over the last year AI has completely changed how I work.
Honestly, AI can code faster and better than I can now, and I’m totally fine with that. It feels a bit like the industrial revolution for software. The bottleneck isn’t really coding anymore. It’s ideas, direction, planning, and figuring out what the right thing to build actually is.
So these days I spend more time thinking about problems, prompting, experimenting, and building things in slightly different ways than I used to.
Still an introvert, still a night builder, still constantly tinkering, just with very different tools.
Looking forward to seeing what everyone here is working on.
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Welcome to Product Hunt, Martyn! Your background sounds really similar to a lot of builders here — decades of solving problems and now using AI to completely change the workflow. The community here is great for getting feedback on what you are building. What are you working on right now? Would love to hear more!
Hey nice to meet you. My journey started similarly with geocities and flash games. AI has changed the way I code too, especially around testing and feature design. What's your current night build?