2025-12-31. Nomoyu Daily for Indie Developers (Issue 228)

📰 News

The truly scary part of AI is that you do not know how to use it to expand capacity

Lately everyone keeps talking about whether AI will take people’s jobs. To be honest, that anxiety is real. But if business leaders, the people who actually control resources and direction, are still stuck at the level of “use AI to save a few headcount costs,” that is the truly dangerous part.

I recently heard an executive in charge of a large software product share a very interesting number. He said they have roughly thirty to forty thousand developers under them, and the current goal is not to cut that group in half. The goal is to find ways for those thirty to forty thousand people to do the work of two hundred thousand.

Do you see the shift? The logic has completely changed.

Whether you work in software development, supply chains, or finance, any company doing business has a pile of backlogged needs. They are the projects people keep saying they would have done long ago if they had the resources. The reality now is that the outside environment is changing too quickly, customer demand is enormous, and simply adding people cannot keep up. If AI can improve efficiency by five or ten times, what we should do is not send everyone home, but bring all those innovation ideas that have been sitting on the to-do list for years into reality.

That leads to a more practical question: if we are not laying people off, what will everyone do in the future?

Roles will definitely change, and the change will be major. In the past, product managers might mainly write documents, draw diagrams, and throw requirements over to engineering. Now it is different. With AI, product managers themselves can be builders. You can use AI to generate a working prototype and even finish seventy or eighty percent of the code, then bring in engineers for the final optimization.

For engineers, the future may feel more like being a contractor. You are no longer laying every brick yourself. Instead, you have a group of AI agents working under you. You need to learn how to direct seven or eight agents working in parallel and check their output. This human-AI collaboration model can let a small team move with the force of a large company. What one person could not handle before can now be done by one person commanding a group of AI agents.

🖥️ Software

Scryer

Scryer is an AI business analytics tool built for Shopify stores. It analyzes sales, customer behavior, and SEO reports to provide actionable insights and trends that help store owners discover hidden opportunities.

Mushy

Mushy is an iOS app for identifying mushrooms, built with RevenueCat and iOS subscriptions.

Gait

Gait is a minimalist step-tracking app that provides practical home screen and lock screen widgets, with support for creating custom new widgets.

PageReport

PageReport is a landing page audit tool that analyzes design, layout, structure, and more, compares pages with competitors, and provides detailed reports and actionable feedback to improve conversion rates.

How Many Work Hours

How Many Work Hours is a Chrome extension that visualizes the real cost of items in working hours, helping users better understand the actual value of their spending.

SEO Action Plan

SEO Action Plan is a Chrome extension that identifies missing or duplicate SEO and social meta tags and provides optimization suggestions. It also includes internal and external link highlighting and content analysis.

🎮 Games

Picto

Picto is an indie game about photography, now available as a demo for players to try.

🌐 Websites

BrightStats

BrightStats is a minimalist website analytics tool that provides core data such as real-time visitors, sources, and page views, with a simple setup process.

Domiq

Domiq is a brand creation tool that combines domain search, logo design, color selection, font pairing, and slogan generation into one service.

FinsWize

FinsWize is an AI-powered personal finance coach with real-time spending tracking, habit analysis, and personalized financial advice to help users make smarter financial decisions and reach their goals.

PDFFillFast

PDFFillFast is an online PDF tool for quickly and securely filling and signing interactive PDFs in the browser, with no uploads or registration required.

Shareboard

Shareboard is a real-time clipboard tool for instant sharing without registration, suitable for team collaboration and quick pasting from any device.

Appleseed Planner

Appleseed Planner is a financial planning app designed to provide simple and clear financial guidance, though it currently has a high bounce rate during user login. The developer is seeking feedback to improve the experience.

Next Is On Me

Next Is On Me is a social events website where users can create and join casual social activities.

Leadlim

Leadlim is a tool that helps SaaS companies easily acquire customers from Reddit and support mutual promotion and customer acquisition.

Frlio

Frlio is a plugin for one-click screenshot and timestamp capture, focused on quickly saving memorable moments from videos.

Muvi

Muvi is a no-code backend platform that handles streaming content encoding, mobile apps, and monetization models, making it well suited for small projects that need a white-label streaming hub.

✍️ Notes

Daily project information:
Website: https://www.nomoyu.com/
RSS: https://www.nomoyu.com/rss/rss.xml
WeChat Official Account: 明航的AI副业
Feel free to connect and exchange ideas