AI to the Rescue

Many months passed by and progress was slow. I was juggling full-time work and only getting a couple of hours of development done in the evenings and as much time as possible on the weekends.

My customers were still loving using SEO Flight Deck and their feedback was fuel that fed my motivation to keep going. One thing that concerned me was that while the product was beautiful and did everything I wanted it to do, I felt it needed a little more differentiation from the competitors as price and usability were only going to get it so far.

Around this time the AI hype train was speeding along and I was using AI tools extensively in other areas of my software development. I could have launched SEO Flight Deck at this time, but I felt I could leverage AI to expand on the existing value proposition.

I would spend the next 6 months building features powered by the Open AI API, many of which ended up in the recycle bin, apart from the AI Powered Keyword management feature, which the initial real-world testers absolutely loved!