BourneS

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[BourneS @bourneshao]

$295B. That's what China just lined up for AI data centers over the next 5 years.
US big tech is spending $700B+ this year alone.
And here I am shipping a tool that 40 people pay for.
Wild thing is, that's fine. Nobody needs a nation state budget to find a niche that actually pays.

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@KaiXCreator Actually, no one cares about it.

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@BratDotAI I've never used Windows before.

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@adahstwt honestly half-joking but i'd take this over watching the spinner do nothing. agent latency is the new loading screen problem

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@Layton_Gott the workflow-specific fine tune is the moat tbh. generic models are commodity, but a model trained on how your users actually work is hard to copy

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@pcshipp ngl the inconsistency is the worst part. same binary, one reviewer approves, another flags it. you start writing defensive metadata just to survive the lottery

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@kapilansh_twt debugging code you didn't really write. when something breaks at 2am you're basically reverse engineering your own product lol

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@kapilansh_twt sqlite. didn't even know it counted as a db at the time lol. shipped 3 products on it before I needed postgres for anything

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@dramaricic demo recorders are weirdly underserved, every tool I've tried either bloats the file or makes me re-record for tiny mistakes. is zoomr doing anything around auto-zoom on clicks? that's the one feature I'd pay for honestly

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@BratDotAI congrats man, two rejections then real installs is the exact arc nobody talks about. what flipped it on the third submission, was it the metadata or actual feature changes?

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@AayushSainii anytime 🙌

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pain is everywhere big tech ignores.

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@lmanchu data sovereignty is the part most ppl sleep on tbh. i've been playing with local models for some automation stuff and the moment you stop piping prompts to someone else's server the whole calculus changes. one-click is the real unlock tho, ollama still scares non-devs

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@fcoury my cat has logged more terminal hours than i have this week tbh

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@jxnlco the naming wars are wild rn. ngl half my side projects are one cease-and-desist away from a rebrand

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@jxnlco honestly the lack of code blocks alone makes it unusable for any technical writing. i ended up just screenshotting from my editor lol

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7/ mech eng students want to understand WHY niche mechanisms exist, not just watch them spin.

globiodal cam indexing drives are trending on youtube shorts but nobody explains the design tradeoffs.

opportunity: interactive 3D mechanism simulator. adjust variables, visualize forces. educational moat.

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niche wins.

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6/ budget travelers in europe can't find content on cheap destinations outside the same 10 tourist hubs.

the 'cheapest flight roulette' youtube genre is huge but unindexed.

gap: a curated app showing destinations under $100 from major EU airports, with local cost-of-living data.

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5/ art students are frustrated that schools teach RYB for aesthetics but never explain why CMYK has wider gamut for print.

r/hatethissmug: 'CMYK still doesn't do a good job of actually explaining color theory'.

opportunity: interactive web tool comparing color mixing across mediums.

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4/ europeans are actively shopping for non-US digital wallets.

r/BuyFromEU is celebrating Walt launching as a privacy-focused Google Wallet alternative. early access, tap-to-pay coming.

broader signal: 3 separate posts today about EU alternatives to US payment rails. demand is real.

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3/ starfield modders want a custom door tool that doesn't require patching every existing hab mod.

r/starfieldmods: 'if it doesn't require patches for every hab mod, I'm in'.

existing solution (PDY) is too complex. opportunity: a one-click door integration utility for modders.