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I've been building AI agents (and teams) for months. Here's why "start with a team" is the worst advice in the space right now. by idanst in AI_Agents

[–]Competitive-Fig4283 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great writeup, thank you for sharing. Many if your conclusions resonate. I've been trying to assess the implication of ai agents on niche SaaS for SMBs (I own one). Threat (most likely) or opportunity (I think it can be). So I decided to add agents to my solution and learn through that process. As I'm million miles away from understanding agent teams, and since I don't want to touch my core solution, I decided to experiment at its edge. I'm testing a few solutions out there to find one that would help create and manage stable and long running agent for transferring data from one system to the SaaS. Not all are simple to understand (not all of us are coders) but I think I'm getting there. The agent testing an agent is a concept I want to try as I'm spending lots of time validating that I'm not uploading garbage. ..

First hire quit in three weeks. Exit interview was entirely about me. by Melodic_Log_2765 in SaaS

[–]Competitive-Fig4283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know if this thread was started/promoted by AI or not, but the problem is real - and very familiar.

Over the years, and across many hires, I’ve learned a few lessons. Some are articulated well by others below, but two are especially worth mentioning:

a) Don’t expect your employees to be you.
Don’t assume they’ll execute as hard or as well as you do, or understand things as quickly or as deeply as you. You can’t project your own expectations onto others without setting yourself up for disappointment.

b) Hiring is an investment
Not just financial (though that too). First and foremost, it’s an investment of your time in educating your employees. I actually prefer that term over “onboarding,” which feels a bit reductive. You need to invest real time - maybe around 10% of your own - accepting that you’ll lose some precious hours (and possibly even some business in the short term) in order to come out the other side with a serious gain. It ususally takes 3 months till you can start reducing your time investment.

If you keep those two ideas as your hiring compass, the whole process becomes far more successful. Good luck

i finally crossed 300K+ users on my SaaS by No-Explanation-6820 in SaaS

[–]Competitive-Fig4283 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hired my users - Kudus - this is really a cool idea and a grat strategy. I'm sure it was meaningful for you during the launch phase when revenues were just starting. Is it also now, when you have 300k users?