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it's a great reminder that Uber wasn't a 2-sided marketplace to begin with, just an on-demand black car service, and Travis drove early on. The marketplace model came later, copying Lyft, more as a low-cost expansion strategy than a business model.

This. Stated another way, you need to start by either: fulfilling existing demand yourself....or being the demand yourself.

Interview with Lugg (YC S15) with some details on how they did it: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/interview-with-lugg-founder...

Thanks for your reply! This will help me a lot.

My default position: If an LLM can create it, we probably don't actually need it.

If AI can create it- it's probably already been created and thought of before?

You can let the LLM create slop for you, sure. But only amateurs are using it for that. You’ll be much happier if you treat it as a tool and use it like any other, a force multiplier to take your ideas and creations and pushes them further along faster.

If you treat it like a black box used to outsource your own thinking, you are holding it wrong.


It’s honestly been my experience. I think I’ve vibe coded one thing that I’ve found to be genuinely useful to me, everything else has ended up as useless slop given time.

I think we probably need less software, but higher quality, not more. Unfortunately AI only goes in one direction…


I agree, and a willingness to experience failure as soon as possible has always been a competitive advantage.

If anything LLM chatbots & synthetic users will make the majority of founders evermore comfortable not testing reality.


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I flip this around.

Marketing comes first. Sales second. Product third.


The Microsoft approach


“The business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: marketing and innovation.” - Peter Drucker

I'm pretty sure my primary job is marketing the work that I do.


Considering: - Anthropic decides how much a token is worth. - Users have no visibility or ability to control in how many tokens a given response will burn.

This is the only expected answer. https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-59-on-credit...


Based on my math, taking development in-house doesn’t make sense until we’re talking >$5K/mn.

https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-72-vibe-code...


I'm reminded of the original Agile joke, "software you don't want in 30days or less." today it's "software you don't want in 5days or less."


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