Status: Failed

I did many anti-patterns in this project.

The Idea

Heard many people complaining LLMs keep messing up the datetime operations. So, I decided to build a deterministic API as a tool to abstract away this problem for any type of time-bounded agent (scheduling, personal assistant, etc.).

What Went Wrong

First, I didn’t verify the problem. I didn’t reproduce the problem on my own, which was very trivial, nor talked to potential customers. I assumed there was a problem by reading a couple of outdated threads online.

I then chatted with a chatbot to verify the problem which eagerly agreed that it exists and told me it was a great idea. Afterward, I wrote the code, built a beautiful UI, purchased the domain name and deploy the project.

When it was time to market it, I didn’t know who to sell. I only then did some market research only to find out that many people already had solved this problem on their own by integrating deterministic Python tool calls.

Lessons Learned

• Validate the problem first! Talk to people who are building the software for.