𝗜 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝟭𝟮 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗱.
I am not a developer. I work in marketing.
I used AI tools to build twelve different apps. I built a pricing calculator, a dashboard, and a landing page. Each one worked perfectly on my screen.
Then every single one of them died.
They all died for the same reason. AI tools help you build, but they do not help you launch.
Here is how they failed:
• App 1: I built a calculator. It worked in the preview. I could not connect it to my own domain. I hit a wall at the last 5%.
• App 3: I built a dashboard. It worked until I needed a backend. I spent a weekend fighting config files and error messages. I gave up.
• App 5: I built a tool in a chat window. It was clean and functional. I could not send a link to anyone else. It was stuck inside the chat.
• App 8: I built a landing page. The tool gave me a code repository. I do not know how to use that.
Every AI builder promises magic. They say you describe an idea and it exists.
That part is true. Building is no longer the hard part. If you know what you want, AI creates it fast.
But "it exists" is not the same as "it is live."
The gap between those two things is where my projects died. That gap is full of hosting, domains, and server settings. These are things built for computer science graduates.
AI tools democratized the creative part of coding. They left the technical part exactly as hard as it was before.
I stopped treating "it runs" as the finish line. The real finish line is a URL that other people can open.
Eleven of my twelve apps are dead. They were practice. My twelfth app is live on my own domain. A stranger used it last week. That is the only version of done that matters.
If your AI apps are stuck in a preview, you are not a bad builder. You are just hitting the step that every demo skips.
What tool are you using, and where does your project get stuck?
Source: https://dev.to/dmytro_chervonyi/i-built-12-apps-with-ai-heres-where-every-one-of-them-died-2dcn