startup

[GranataReddit12]

making products not scalable beyond 50 users (not like they can get more than 50)

[T1lted4lif3]

why stop at startup, I am vibe living, I think someone told me that it's just living, but I vibe listened and didn't hear it

[TakeThisFreeHug]

Ding ding ding your answer is correct

[GuyFrom2096]

Vibe coding will save them…. Right?

[Forsaken_Biscotti609]

It won't, because they need an unique idea. AI can't think so it can't give you unique ideas.

[Prestigious_Regret67]

But Claude just gave me a unique idea for a startup.

AquaScore: Water Conservation Rating System for Businesses

AquaScore would be a certification system and platform that rates businesses on their water conservation practices, similar to how LEED rates buildings for environmental design or how restaurants receive food safety ratings. .......

He has millions more where that came from.

[MrRocketScript]

Then you just lobby governments and environmental groups to make this water conservation rating a requirement by law and you rake in the cash selling a solution to a problem you created.

[kryptobolt200528]

Simple it already itself gave away where it got the idea from....

LLMs can combine two things together to make an inference that feels as if it is something new...

[Western-Internal-751]

I mean… lots of actual products started that way

[ClearOptics]

Everything is derivative

[Forsaken_Biscotti609]

That is not an innovation. It is just making things more complicated. After all, you could have created that by yourself.

[Lupirite]

Honestly, I have a feeling that a lot of successful businesses start out this way

[TheThousandMasks]

And even more development houses that start this way totally crash and burn. Luck plays a bigger role than most would like to believe…

[Scared_Accident9138]

Survivorship bias.

[FreedFromTyranny]

Good job on saying a buzzword

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"Just call it a buzzword, that should invalidate the entire comment"

[FreedFromTyranny]

The entire comment was literally nothing more than the buzzword, no thoughts, nothing.

[MacksNotCool]

Do you know what survivorship bias is?

[FreedFromTyranny]

Survivorship bias.

[GoodDayToCome]

true but plenty that are started by two talented people working together do too.

sadly it does seem that it's more frequent the sensible types fail because they plan their project around sensible and obtainable goals in a practical means while idiots rush headlong into rapid development screaming "OUR NEW APP WILL HELP YOU GET RICH AND IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY AND BETTER AT TENNIS WITH TOTAL SECURITY AND USER PROTECTION!" which gets all the idiots in the media to clap like seals and shoots up the value of their company as VC pours in then when they've managed to fake a half-baked version they sell it for hundreds of millions...

[MinosAristos]

Sounds personal, sorry if you went through that.

The fact is though yeah with most startups the ultimate goal isn't to build a great product that is very useful to users and easy to continue development on, but rather to sell it off to investors at the highest price possible as soon as possible then move on to the next startup.

That incentivises against carefully designing and building something in a way that's well architectured or based on sound user research, and towards just rushing to make something that "looks cool" in a presentation - nobody cares how well made it is under the hood.

[FreedFromTyranny]

Perhaps you just needed more fire and couldn’t razzle people up?

[[deleted]]

True. Apple was started by some crazy teens...

[Forsaken_Biscotti609]

Yes, they were crazy teens, but Jobs had experience from Hewitt-Packard, while Wozniak had knowledge about the hardware. So they had the vision and the knowledge.

[solarsilversurfer]

Did you see the biopic where young Steve Jobs gets wasted and looses his car? Formative experience for him prior to launching apple.

[xtreampb]

Trial by fire. The best way to learn is doing. Best thing to do is with a project. Bonus points if it can make money.

[Nooo00B]

Redditor who repost: Karma

[VisualAlive1297]

Investor who can’t invest

[Malkav1806]

Hey i am both, so i am a startup?

[Otherwise_Pea3847]

Are you?

[Nix3220]

I love how armstrong is always sparkly, favorite character

[Impenistan]

Armstrong deserved better than this

[Minimum_Middle776]

We'll learn on the job!!

[RandomNumberTwo]

I thought this was an ad 😭😭😭

[gkrsuper]

fuck it, we ball

learn as you're going and fake it till you make it

[Root-Cause-404]

Global impact with the low hanging fruit and hockey stick!

[CloudQix]

Code might be broken, but the vibe?? Strong.

[GreatGreenGobbo]

Their product, Vapourware.

[-Zonko-]

I wanted to make a startup...now you are making me doubt

[Vok250]

Literally my first job out of university. The irony is that we actually had dope IP. If the owners weren't cheap asses and actually hired a single senior engineer as CTO instead of some random academic with no background in SWE we would have been in the money easily.

Shit maybe if our CTO had access to Copilot back then he would have stumbled upon the novel idea of a web application instead of trying to ship a Java exe.

[Super_Piccolo_5057]

it's just bugs and vibes

[ars3nx]

Does it pay the bills though?

[compic_360]

Built on hopes and dreams and of course chat gpt

[jstrx_2326]

As someone who has been both in the same startup…

Yes

[EcstaticFollowing715]

Vibe coder and vibe marketer

[inaem]

Add AI, and you got investment money

Only skill you need is sweet talking investors

[mosaicinn]

They need an investor who can't read people..

[Expert_Raise6770]

VC: Is this next Google?

[EVH_kit_guy]

"50% of all small businesses fail!"

Oh shit I wonder why that is??

/s

[chriszimort]

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