Tools: How AI Killed My Assignment Business — And Pushed Me To Build An...

Two year ago, I was helping students complete assignments manually.

Researching topics. Structuring essays. Editing drafts. Formatting citations.

It was a service business built around solving academic chaos.

Once tools like ChatGPT became mainstream, students didn’t need manual help anymore.

The demand for traditional assignment services dropped fast.

No constant tab switching. No copying from one place to another. No breaking flow.

That’s when I saw the real problem in academic writing.

Students weren’t struggling because AI didn’t exist.

They were struggling because their workflow looked like this:

Developers would never tolerate that kind of workflow.

Source: Dev.to