Bonan Kou

Founder of EarthOnline — an engine to find any audience from their real public posts, and talk to it as one. Currently a CS PhD student at Purdue.

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

The most expensive product is certainty. That’s what essentially every successful startup is selling.

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@hanghuang_ Got it. I’ve been thinking about this problem too. Let me dig into it and I’ll share what I find.

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

When using Zapier/n8n to automate things, I find it harder to build DAG than just coding myself. Should we build a product where users draw UI of the workspace and let AI infer the underlying workflow?

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

Fable 5 is back

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@hanghuang_ Since you are a successful YC founder, curious how would you answer the "why not use ClaudeCode to do everything" question.

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@humfhuang How's the launch going so far

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@hanghuang_ @insforge You guys really made significant progress since then. Congratulations.

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

@chaomeng966674 Best of luck, Mona!

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

Sell your tokens to 10K users and hope they rarely use it. Basically the SaaS version of Claude Max.

[Jasmin @Jasmin_Shahu]

Got Claude Max and a MacBook.

Now how do I make $1M?

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

@NovaXCode Gmail, chrome.

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

@pcshipp I think builders should start marketing before they build. I learned that the hard way.

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@snowmaker Great point. I should probably add a clause to my Terms saying user conversations may be used to improve the product tho...

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@mxfp4 You can call your product an "AI-native" platform then

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@humfhuang Congratulations! Humphrey

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

@pcshipp Just forget about your code and consider yourself as a freelancer and offer free help (help manually if necessary) so you can make some friends. It worked well for me.

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@mxfp4 I hope they are less expensive than hiring the influencers lol

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@pcshipp Well $10 is still better than nothing. Where do you find the first users and do you think you can copy that strategy?

[Bonan Kou @guangze12138]

@oaZsxer Got it. Thanks mate.