Of course... the day you can prompt "generate profits, make no mistake" and it works, it instantly stops working.

Is this open source or not ?

Hmm... Pixel art models ? https://www.spritefusion.com/pixel-art-generator

Nice, I've been using ChevyRay fonts for a while (example: https://www.spritefusion.com/), they're great too!

No AI stuff, just a web-based level design editor...

https://www.spritefusion.com/

That is really easy to use. I haven't tried any game design or anything like that for a few decades now; but in my 10 minutes playing around on it, I liked it a lot.

Thanks for giving it a try! If at some point you wanna make some maps with it, feel free to drop in the discord, I'd be happy to give you a tour.

This is a tempting (and not completely false) shortcut, but often you don’t compete for customer’s wallets. For many companies, a lower price is often not the reason they switch.

They stay because of the time invested in the current solution, the integration in their pipelines etc.

Very cool! Sprite Fusion maker here :)

Agree here, the code barrier (creating software) was hiding the real mountain: creating software business. The two are very different beasts.

Software engineers were never paid to "create software business". That's the job of business ppl, and a thin minority of software engineers.

One only compete against his own costs.

If you need $1M/y in subscriptions to build your software, you'll be outcompete by solos who needs $60k/y and don't care about the 100% churn of a one-time fee.

This is simply market optimization when the marginal cost of producing the good falls.

Very cool!