LLMs make building a tool for yourself worth it

Worth Building

A personal essay on how LLMs changed the economics of building small tools. The author spent an hour and three prompts to create heade.rs, a domain lookup tool that avoids the ad-filled, upsell-heavy free tools. It costs less than a cup of coffee per month and doesn't need to sell anything. The piece argues that cheaper software lets more people build for an audience of one, though discoverability remains a challenge.