Oliver

Founder @ | I enjoy building things and businesses

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

4) Deadlines? Forget it. First, they overpromise, and then come up with the most creative excuses. Over and over again.

Outsourcing development only works when culture, mutual respect and common values fit.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

I spent 7 years working with offshore development teams from India, Pakistan and Kenia.

Here’s what you don’t know:
1) You don’t pay $15. You pay $150, because the developer doesn’t care about your business, doesn’t try to understand it, and builds whatever looks good to him.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

3) Think it improves over time as they get to know the codebase and your business better? False. Your project goes through 6 people within 6 weeks, while no one cares what the last or next person is doing.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

@coryalthoff While that’s one option, it also often comes down to bad actors in the team or motivation loss

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

Founders still believe they need to give 30% shares to a CTO. I’ve seen many startups fail due to randomly put together teams, motivation loss and whatnot.

If you’re a founder, build an MVP with AI and get market traction first. Then hire a solid engineer and keep your shares.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

Transforming enterprises from excel-backed workflows to AI native operations is a incredibly huge opportunity. Make use of it.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

hello

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

I was a builder for 10 years, until I realized that distribution and being able to sell is just as important. Mastering the art of sales is one of the most valuable skills you can have.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

What would you do if you couldn’t fail?

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

Day 1 - feeling stoked about it
Day 2 - feeling stoked about it
Day 3 - starting to question everything
Day 4 - realizing this idea has huge potential
Day 5 - this is taking too long

Founders, can you relate? Quitting is easy, but who remains persistent will eventually win.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

@solotechdev Netcup could be worth considering

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Living in Germany means getting invited to lunch and ending up paying 2,50€ for the organic minced meat that was used to cook the Bolognese. Literally happened to me a few years ago.

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@jonathan_wilke 100% agree. I don't really care about the model. If the harness and context is not sufficient, any model will perform badly.

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@jsn_wht Yes, everyone is focusing on fancy UIs and completely ignores the foundation, while making themselves dependent.

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Building AI agents is the new „I’ve built a SaaS“ on steroids. People build customer support agents, marketing agents and more to solve one specific thing. What they don’t realize is that the real opportunity is to create a centralized data layer, instead of adding another tool.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

@LeoBuilds_ Posting on LinkedIn made me start posting here as well, finding it super refreshing

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@Henryf1w Vibe coding mostly ends when people wonder how to actually host and maintain the stuff they built. If they wonder at all.

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@DanielNguyenHQ Agreed. I think we’re going to see such solutions in the near future.

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

@mindinpanic highly depends on the usecase, but currently i am thinking a lot about semantic layers

[Oliver @oli_so_no]

@jonesnylander you could even say data is gold, literally. Companies sit on huge amounts of data, most of them just don’t or can’t leverage it