I built my wedding planning app with a lot of AI help. I m a former wedding coordinator, not a software engineer, so Claude Code and Codex were a huge part of making it real.
But the more I talked to actual couples, the more I realized I was deeper in the AI adoption bubble than many of my users.
A bit of context: I'm a UX/UI designer who got tired of wireframing ideas that hadn't been validated yet. So our team built Bunzee a workflow that goes from raw idea all the way to a handoff-ready structure in one session.
The flow: market validation competitor analysis PRD IA structure + design direction + MVP scope extraction.
That last part is new. We added it because the most common question we kept getting after people finished the PRD was: "Okay, so now I still have to figure out the actual screens myself?"
We built DealGPT when we realised chats dont make money deals do. DealGPT allows you to research with AI, connect with verified people, and deploy capital in a single interface.
I don't wake up thinking about revenue. I wake up thinking about the builder somewhere who spent 4 months on a product that could genuinely help people and nobody knows it exists.
That bothers me more than any metric ever could.
My co-founder and I didn't find each other at a networking event or through a LinkedIn DM. It was completely random. I stumbled onto a website, a conversation happened, and that one person became my closest friend. We've since built 2 platforms and a startup together.