I canceled my Azure Static Web App Standard plan due to ChatGPT

Last year I stopped caring about my Google Analytics. This year, Google kept sending me notifications that they were moving their tracking system into a new platform. I finally decided to listen to them and updated my Google Analytics. However, with ChatGPT in play, I figured, no one is going to care about things I wrote that they could ask an AI.

I was paying for the Standard Plan in Azure Static Web App because I had too much content for the Free plan. To get back to the Free plan I had to remove a lot of content.

Over the years I focused my efforts in different types of contents based on what I was working on. For instance a while back I was trying to figure out something in Photoshop and learned something interested so I posted about it. This one blog post about Photoshop turned to getting 20,000 page views per month. However, at the time my content was mostly about Linux. Photoshop and Linux don’t quite mix. For a while I questioned myself if I should write more about Photoshop. I wrote the 20K-pageview-post out of necessity. One day I decided my blog is not about Photoshop so I removed that content. Overnight, my traffic crashed like the Titanic.

A few years ago I was learning the D3 JavaScript library for visualizations to enjoy more freedom out of Tableau and Power BI. It’s a great library but what a learning curve. I wrote dozens of posts about it which brought barely any traffic. I didn’t care as long as it helped me.

In the past I went to a Ruby conference when Ruby was the hot programming language. The speaker shortly presented how his website looked like a computer terminal. I thought that was so cool but to do the same would require me to learn a lot more JavaScript.

A few months ago I asked ChatGPT to generate the code to create a website like that. After about 30 minutes of interactions, it created the code exactly how I wanted it. I did not understad half the code, but it worked.

I ended up removing most of my content about JavaScript and canceled my paid Standard Plan. End of story.