'why would anyone pay for this' my roommate said when i showed him the thing
but like, someone did. a stranger. $12 usd for a tiny script that converts claude api response logs into readable summaries. i posted it kind of as a joke, wasn't expecting anything
the weird part is now i'm second-guessing what i built. it's maybe 40 lines. does extremely basic stuff. takes the json dump, pulls out the token counts and stop reasons, spits back a markdown table. nothing fancy. but someone's project apparently needed exactly that and didn't want to write it themselves
which makes me think about all the other scripts i've written and deleted because they felt too simple to be real work. like, the one that kills all my idle chrome tabs and logs which ones i closed. saves maybe 11 minutes a week. stupid. broken half the time. but would someone pay for that too
i dunno. doesn't feel like much but it also kind of does. first money from code i put out there without asking anyone's permission first
turns out the bar for 'good enough' is way lower than my brain thinks it is