Are we entering the era of AI-powered indie hackers?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

A few years ago, building a SaaS often meant finding a co-founder, hiring freelancers, or raising money just to get an MVP out.

Today, one person with AI can do things that previously required an entire team.

Research with ChatGPT or Gemini.

Design with Figma AI.

Code with Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.

Generate marketing content.

Create videos.

Handle customer support.

Analyze user feedback.

Ship multiple updates in a single day.

We're moving from "How do I build this?" to "What should I build?"

The bottleneck isn't development anymore.

It's finding real problems, getting distribution, and convincing people to pay.

I think we'll see a huge wave of people becoming indie hackers—not because everyone dreams of entrepreneurship, but because AI lowers the barrier to building software to almost zero.

That also creates a new challenge.

Thousands of products will be launched every day.

The winners won't necessarily be the best developers.

They'll be the people who understand customers, build trust, and execute consistently.

What do you think?

-Are you building more as a solo founder because of AI?
-Which parts of your workflow have AI completely replaced?
-What's still impossible to automate?
-If you had one AI tool that doesn't exist today, what would you build first?

I have a feeling the next generation of successful companies will look very different from the startups we saw just five years ago.