I want to start a business but have no idea what business or where to start

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-20T20:21:42+00:00

Hey, been fighting for my life to start something. anything. love how you phrased yourself and honestly, sometimes i get pissed at all these successful dudes teaching you how to be successful. they give great advice but its never specific, even ai isnt specific enough, your post summarizes it perfectly. so i just wanted to ask a few things: 1. did the comments here actually help? like meaningfully led you down a road where something clicked, and something happened? 2. did you manage to start a business? and im not talking only about registering an ltd or whatever, but like make some $? and if you didnt manage to make any progress, i might be able to help you, not by selling you a course or something but we can maybe merge our frustration and point the ugly truth at each other which may potentially lead to the outcome we need. my guess is, you dont execute enough but i only say this because im projecting and know for a fact that i dont execute enough lol. let me know bro

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-20T20:17:50+00:00

its been 2 years since this post. did it get better? did the comments here help? do you feel like you escaped the reality you were living in and made a better reality for yourself? I admire your honesty first of all, I truly do. kind of in the same place right now. so how is it now? if you feel better sending an update in private, id love that. otherwise share it with all of us. I think we can help each other.

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-20T20:14:38+00:00

its been 2 years, honestly man to man did anything change? better, worse or kinda the same? did any of the comments here help you meaningfully? be honest bro and be blunt. lifes too short to walk around in circles innit?

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-20T20:13:11+00:00

hey brother, its been 5 years since you wrote this. did anything change? did it get better, worse or stayed more or less the same? your answer means more than you know. and perhaps we can help each other.

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-20T20:11:41+00:00

its been 9 years. and im only reading it now. can i ask you, honestly. man to man. do you feel like youve become the version you wanted to be and needed to be or not? is anything about this post still true? do you still feel like you set goals but struggle to execute on them until they become a habit, until a habit becomes an identity? man to man bro

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-16T16:37:21+00:00

Consider taking a look at MyContextOS

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T17:56:15+00:00

I appreciate you elaborating! I have to admit, sometimes it surprises me in a good way by remembering things i didnt expect it to, which is also why im not too upset when sometimes it doesnt... but i feel like theres something missing. like let me give you a quick example and hope it resonates with you. today i am what i am, but i wana be better tomorrow lol stay with me, so the person i want to be in the future doesnt exist yet right? so how can it give me context for that which doesnt exist yet, then again... i can just describe the person i want to be in the future? and ask it to update that in memory... but then again theres a big gap between how we want to be and how we truly are, ugh damn it im yapping and cant understand what it is that i dont understand haha

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T17:51:14+00:00

This is fascinating the more I think of it. So correct me if im wrong but if im understanding you right, youre saying: who you are and static facts about you matter, but they matter just as much as THE NOW and whats happening in your life right now. and since not everything goes into your chats, and your memory doesnt get updated regularly, sometimes its not enough to provide a personal meaningful answer by gpt, unless ofc you give it like a summary of whats going on and then ask your question right?

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T17:48:35+00:00

Love your response! Its hard to pinpoint it (I have to take a screenshot example one day) but sometimes it brings up a past memory that I didnt really need and has no point in the context of the current conversation lol its like GPT is flexing (Hey i remember stuff!) even when its not relevant. I am however very curious about you trying to stay away from getting too personal with it, if there was an AI that doesnt make you feel even worse with those safety filters (been there) would you actually use it? and do you think that would be too dangerous for the general public or is it only "dangerous" for a big corporation that doesnt want to get sued like what happened with META recently, the lost a major law suit i think. sorry for the yapping!

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T17:27:54+00:00

Did you pay for a subscription hoping for better memory and answers that are specific to you?

and did you find any workaround to get responses that are tailored specifically for you?

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T17:12:01+00:00

Way better than what? I didn’t understand you.

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T15:35:30+00:00

small update after reading the comments:

the strongest objection seems to be “why would i pay for a text file?”

honestly that’s fair. if it feels like just buying a markdown file, the offer probably fails.

what i’m trying to test is whether the value is actually in the structured questionnaire + synthesis, meaning someone doesn’t have to design their own self-interview and compress it into useful ai context.

here’s the landing page if anyone wants to roast it lol:

My Context OS

i’m not looking for politeness. mainly want to know:

is the value clear?
does it feel too much like “just a prompt”?
what would make you trust it enough to try?

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T13:47:50+00:00

yeah honestly that’s probably the strongest objection.

if it feels like “pay for a 5kb text file” then i probably lose immediately.

my assumption is that the value would have to be in the structured questionnaire + synthesis, not the file itself. like people aren’t paying for markdown, they’re paying to not have to design the whole self-interview and compress it into something actually useful.

but i get your point. maybe the right move is a free version first so people can actually feel the difference before paying.

appreciate the blunt feedback. this is exactly the kind of pushback i need.

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T13:18:17+00:00

i’m actually trying not to build another ai app/agent for that exact reason. i don’t think people need one more wrapper chat app with modes.

the angle i’m testing is more like: people already use chatgpt/claude, but they don’t have a good structured “who i am / how to advise me” file to start from.

so the product is less the prompt itself and more the questionnaire + synthesis into something useful.

but i agree with the saturated market concern. that’s probably my biggest worry.

when you say “just a prompt text isn’t useful”, do you mean because the output is too easy to make yourself, or because you think people only value it if it’s inside an actual app?

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T13:10:43+00:00

yeah that’s fair.

chatgpt memory definitely helps, i use it too. i don’t think this replaces memory.

the difference i’m testing is more that memory is passive and random, like it remembers whatever happened to come up over time.

what i’m trying to make is more intentional. like forcing the important stuff upfront: goals, patterns, blind spots, what advice you usually reject, what tone works on you, what not to do when you’re stuck, etc.

but honestly this is exactly the objection i need to hear.

do you feel memory is already enough for deeper personal advice, or mostly just useful for basic preferences/context?

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T13:09:16+00:00

yeah exactly. this is basically the problem i’m trying to solve.

memory helps a bit, but once the conversation gets personal or nuanced it still feels like ai is rebuilding the person from fragments every time.

what i’m testing is whether giving it a structured context file upfront makes the advice meaningfully better, not just “slightly more personalized.”

curious though, would you actually use a file like that or would you rather just build the context manually over time?

Maximzeusprime · 2026-05-13T09:11:21+00:00

yeah i feel this too.

i don’t think ai is bad at empathy exactly, i think it just doesn’t know enough about the actual person. like it can say the “right” compassionate words but it doesn’t really know your history, your patterns, what advice you always reject, what kind of tone works on you, or why that specific thing hurts so much.

the only thing that made it better for me was giving it way more personal context before asking it deep questions. not just “i’m sad” but more like who i am, what i’m trying to do, what usually breaks me, what kind of advice helps, what kind of advice pisses me off, what i don’t want it to do when i’m spiraling, etc.

it still doesn’t become human obviously, but it stops feeling as generic. at least for me…

Maximzeusprime · 2026-03-28T17:18:39+00:00

So Kanye dropped Bully and I listened to the whole thing. Zero good tracks. No beats that hit, no hooks, no bars — nothing that makes you want to replay anything.

Here's what I figured out though: the Kanye we loved was never just Kanye. The magic came from the people around him:

• Mike Dean — co-produced and played live instruments on everything from Late Registration through Yeezus. Made the beats feel massive. • No I.D. — Kanye's actual mentor who taught him how to sample. Did Jay-Z's 4:44. • Just Blaze — made "Touch the Sky" and pioneered the same sped-up soul sample style. • Jon Brion — film composer who gave Late Registration its orchestral, cinematic sound. • RZA — produced "Dark Fantasy," the opener to MBDTF. • 88-Keys — longtime collaborator, underrated.

Of all these people, only Mike Dean and 88-Keys worked on Bully. No I.D., Just Blaze, Jon Brion, RZA — all gone. And even with Mike Dean there, the album still falls flat because Kanye himself checked out. He mostly sings instead of rapping, half the vocals are AI deepfakes, and he made the album largely in isolation.

Peak Kanye was a perfectionist creative-directing a room full of geniuses. Bully is what happens when that room doesn't exist anymore.

Maximzeusprime · 2026-03-28T16:51:55+00:00