Tips on starting your first AI project:
1. Solve a real problem.
Pick something tiny that genuinely annoys you every day at work or home. If it saves you 15 minutes of manual headache, that is your app. (1/4)
@launch_llama This is a very real problem. Too many people are hostage to one payment platform and many have lost thousands after the platform just decides, “you went against Rule 71937a/bcs subsection 3-1 subsection 9. No money for you. All decisions are final”
Spending 40 hours debating your database, UI libraries, and auth setup feels like building a moat.
Then someone clones your entire frontend in an afternoon, and you realize the code was zero defense.
Anyone can replicate software overnight. What they cannot copy is the 50 conversations you had with real users before touching a landing page.
An AI agent e-mailed FBI agents?!
I've always thought the logic is if a tool makes a mistake, the human using it is still at fault.
But when your autonomous agent takes an action you would have rejected, who stands in court: you, or the API key?
Building features is usually just a comfortable way to hide from users.
Filling a calendar with networking calls is how talkers avoid shipping.
AI didn't change that bottleneck. It just made it ten times faster to produce the comfortable half. Builders can now spin up whole apps nobody asked for while dodging rejection.
The business only survives when you force yourself to do the work you hate.
@yevloop The real moat is always work. Getting distribution is work that isn’t as easy to outsource. With ai the building has become the easy part so people are still willing to do it
@Ionkosm Interesting. Potentially limit it. Even if you’re using AI daily, I’d expect them to retain some sort of decision making or thought processes. Last thing I need is someone trusting ai so much they both hallucinate and end up attempting a coup.
People glorify grinding and sticking it out.
They conveniently leave out runway.
No amount of work ethic matters if you run out of cash before the business can even breathe.
Founders say they didn't make money for 3 to 10 years.
How did they sustain their life then?
I understand a year, but anything over 5 years of zero income sounds like you need to be incredibly privileged to make it.