--- title: Using AI to Launch a Product: Shipping It | daily.dev description: A developer shares the final chapter of building and launching a small web game called Padlock using AI assistance. After completing development and beta... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-ai-to-launch-a-product-shipping-it-kc0avktrp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using AI to Launch a Product: Shipping It | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares the final chapter of building and launching a small web game called Padlock using AI assistance. After completing development and beta... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-ai-to-launch-a-product-shipping-it-kc0avktrp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KC0AVkTRP.png og:image:alt: Using AI to Launch a Product: Shipping It og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Using AI to Launch a Product: Shipping It **[Atomic Spin](https://daily.dev/sources/atomicobject)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares the final chapter of building and launching a small web game called Padlock using AI assistance. After completing development and beta testing, the hardest part was the psychological leap of publicly sharing the product. The game reached ~50 daily active users in the first week through organic sharing, settling to ~15 daily active users with 40 accounts created and over 1,500 total plays. Post-launch, real user feedback drove meaningful improvements including community puzzle submissions, an admin dashboard, and performance tracking with timers. The key takeaway: AI accelerates development and unblocks technical challenges, but it doesn't replace product thinking — it amplifies it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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