AI versus Marshy - My Experience with AI Apps

I’ve been writing about AI for a while now, and I’ve had the chance to try out a bunch of different apps and tools. In fact, I’ve signed up for over 40 of them in the last year alone. But despite having access to all these cool new technologies, I’ve only ended up paying for a handful of them. Let’s take a closer look at what’s going on here. -Marshy I signed up for over 40 AI apps in the last year - and here’s the hot tip: you’re not missing out A non-exhaustive list of AI apps I’ve tested over the last year: Audiopen Alfred AI Send Potion Hume AI AgentHub Headshot Pro Phonely AI Play.HT LiCode Strut Browserless CleverAds Eclipse AI Displayr Zotly Eesel AI Blaze StockMusic.app Reflect Lily AI Therapist Spacebar Hexomatic Comigo for ADHD Imagica AI LiterallyAnything.io LowCoderr QuickCreator Midjourney TurboGTM Copy.ai CodeDesign.ai Permar Summit AI coach Stockimg.ai Data.ai PromptLoop ChatGPT That’s over 40 and I know I’m missing some. The way I captured this information is by going over newly created logins in 1password over the last 12 months. 1password is so handy for tracking all of these subscriptions! Of these - I have paid cash money for 5 of them ( Blaze , Midjourney , CodeDesign.ai , ChatGPT , and Audiopen ). There’s only 2 I’m currently paying for - Audiopen and ChatGPT . There’s something in this. I have money. I write a newsletter about AI. There’s room for more subscriptions here. I’m not the target customer for all of these apps - but I think the bigger reason I’m not paying for more is that a lot of these apps are quite sh*tty to use. On the ones I actually paid for: I snagged a deal by jumping on CodeDesign.ai’s lifetime offer. It’s an AI website builder that claims to make spinning up pages/sites quick and easy. Spoiler alert: It’s slow and frustrating and easier for me to spin things up in Webflow, Carrd, or basically anything else that doesn’t completely suck. Originally appeared in newsletter : AI versus Marshy #50: one year’s worth of looking at AI! 🥳