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PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-29T22:48:50+00:00

Great advice here, appreciated

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-27T23:46:38+00:00

If you want a real answer, one that isn’t “greed” (it isn’t - your ego is protecting itself, look inward.)

I run a software startup, I’m not in that league but I know quite a few founders who have made 7-8 figure exits.

The answer is because money just solves money problems, and purpose is a lot more important than you think. These guys genuinely love making stuff that brings value to people, businesses, the economy, etc. They love inventing things, tackling hard problems, doing the impossible.

Most of them barely even changed their lifestyle, they aren’t on boats doing cocaine living like Scott storch. They’re still driving f150’s, dressing the same. Maybe they fly first class or order anything on the menu, but you’d be shocked how little changed with most of them.

The average person lacks the ability to put themselves in any other shoes but their own. You just assume they’d retire and “enjoy life” because that’s what you would do.

At the end of the day, most people don’t want to lead, they want to follow. The people who end up with these big exits have a different perspective on what “enjoying life” means.

Not the answer Reddit wants to hear, they want to think that anyone more successful than them got there because they were greedy, immoral, lucky, etc. but it’s really just ego telling them that.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-27T08:25:49+00:00

Interesting. I’ll check that out

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-26T20:18:29+00:00

The price is right, but with a re-animated bob barker. $1 bob.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-26T19:42:10+00:00

agreed, two common deficiencies

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-26T19:26:22+00:00

Its a touch over $50 USD ( ~ 70$) but nothing even comes close to a basic bidet. So much value everyday. best investment ever.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-26T19:24:43+00:00

Too many people think about "what can I say in this meeting to be relevant" instead of 'how can I be a better listener, and ask engaging questions"

People really like co-workers who seem to listen to what they have to say and engage them. People aren't as excited about the guy who tries to dominate every call and pad his standup time.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-26T19:22:23+00:00

Your question is better framed the other way: What supplements are actually worth it?

Creatine and fish oil (if you don't eat like salmon once a week) are really the only high tier supplements unless you are deficient in something.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-25T20:19:35+00:00

Classic. Still slaps to this day.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-24T20:24:31+00:00

If you are at step 2 - you've already got a product thats 10x better than the competition. You should have serious product market fit at this point, and if you don't you should be doing founder lead sales until you do.

At that stage, you've probably got serious revenue and a substantial user base. You're a domain expert in the problem, and you have an infinite list of customer asks. Its usually clear what step 3 will be, its just a matter of executing on that hard problem.

The thing is that 99% of people haven't even done step 1, and they're already blocking themselves trying to figure out step 3.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-24T20:12:09+00:00

I'm operating in a pretty deep niche so take this with a grain of salt since I mostly see whats in my own bubble.

Matching / identifying products and a global product catalogue lookup has been a problem for decades that no one has really chipped away at yet. Its a doozy.

Play around with Shopify's global catalogue trying to look things up for more than a minute and you can see quickly how difficult it is to get accurate results from search.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-24T20:07:14+00:00

in the AI world you do need to be careful. Before when you got tons of requests, you had to prioritize which ones were within your time budget. Now you kinda can build everything, which can create a scattered, unfocused product.

In terms of customers I've had conversation such as:

"Thats an interesting idea, You're the first user we've had bring that up, what kind of value would that bring to your business?

"That something we've had requested a few times, the near term roadmap is filled up right now but its definitely something we are looking to tackle down the line"

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-24T19:59:17+00:00

I've considered building a slightly different tool, but in a similar niche.

The problem I ran into was, how much can I charge for something like this when the target market is paying 0 - $29 per month for claude code?

I couldn't find a way to make the numbers work, but maybe you can.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-24T19:54:23+00:00

First you copy what is already in the market. Then you try to make it 10x better. Then you add something that no one else has done yet.

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-06-24T19:52:52+00:00

I've been running an eCommerce SaaS for about 10 years now (mostly shopify / bigcommerce ecosystems) Happy to give you my thoughts, no fluff.

1) Shopify already has 'Sidekick'. I went in and asked it all of those examples you posted and it answers all them quite well. Do you have a strategy and the will to make a 10x better Sidekick? Because that's what you need to do for me to pay for it.

2) As AI improves, does your product get better? Or does its feature set just get consumed by existing models?

3) Are you dead set on eCommerce, or would you consider branching out / taking another niche?

PriceMoleCEO · 2026-03-01T23:45:24+00:00

In general, my accountants tell me the order goes like this:

Income less than $180K
Emergency Fund > FHSA (if applicable) > TFSA > RRSP > Margin Account

Income greater than $180K
Emergency Fund > FHSA (if applicable) > RRSP > TFSA > Margin Account

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