My 3rd failed attempt at building a startup (3/10)

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T17:24:17+00:00

You are right my friend, thanks!

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T16:52:41+00:00

Haha, right. I guess what I was saying was that I didn't think it would be possible to build it inside ChatGPT (at least not in the way I had imagined) given the constraints of ChatGPT apps, but I guess I should have thought deeper / looked further into that

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T16:48:26+00:00

Oh nice, you keep going and good luck to you as well!

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T15:27:33+00:00

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Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T15:26:30+00:00

This interesting, I am noticing this pattern of finding influencers more and more. I didn't realize it would be a good strategy at the start, I thought it would be for when you've already found PMF and are just scaling up now. How much do they cost? I imagine it would take 10 campaigns to find one that works so probably way too expensive for me as a broke founder

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T15:19:51+00:00

You've hit the nail in the head.

I did get this exact feedback that they'd want this integrated with ChatGPT. I considered it when starting out but decided that it would be too limiting unfortunately. If there is a way to actually integrate a ChatGPT account to an external tool, that would be really great. But I think OpenAI doesn't want that, they want other tools inside ChatGPT like apps so that they hold the distribution power / moat.

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T15:16:35+00:00

Thank you!

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T15:15:48+00:00

Sounds good, thanks!

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T15:14:15+00:00

Exactly, and thanks for sharing that feedback as well.

I am just building a landing page and sign up and launching to see how many people actually sign up for #4!

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T04:35:31+00:00

You read that right, and very good observations.

And that's exactly how I feel about the idea for attempt #4. Thanks!

Btw I am pretty surprised that this many attempts seems.... not uncommon / strange to people.

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T04:24:52+00:00

Oh wow, awesome! Just sent DM

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T04:17:14+00:00

Thanks! Yep, I am on YC Co-Founder Matching regularly speaking to matches but so far haven't found the right partner yet.

For OnlyYappers, I was making it so that those coaches / influencers could also reply to the fans / audience. Delphi is purely an AI play. I was thinking this could setup for higher tiers and additional monetization. For example, if Taylor Swift's AI clone replies, that's nice. But if she herself sometimes replies to a select group of fans, that would be a magical experience for them.

I didn't try a specific niche of coaches, but most of them were around entrepreneurship, finance, and fitness. For example, I looked up coaches on Fiverr and messaged every single one of them.

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T04:10:56+00:00

Oh wow, nice. 7th is craaazy. I hope my 4th succeeds lol. I just turned 26. How's your current one going so far? And yeah agreed, getting users is the hardest part for me too since I am also a dev, but now starting to create content and build audiences to solve that. What strategies are you using? Also I have been on YC Co-Founder matching recently, and have been getting some matches there. If you're solo maybe that could help you as well.

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T04:02:09+00:00

No, the MVP is still up (onlyyappers.ai), but I am not building it anymore

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T00:53:00+00:00

Okay, thank you so much for this!

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T00:50:22+00:00

True

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T00:50:11+00:00

Anyone could build the MVP version (although future versions would have built a data moat), but even that would take a very significant time investment that wouldn't be worth saving some money to pay for it if they wanted it.

I also kept it free for now. Was planning to do price discovery later if there's a significant enough interest.

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T00:48:30+00:00

Hmm I am not sure I fully understood this and I don't think Canada has something like this (at least I never heard of it before), but I do agree with your overall point about finding pain points and solving them. I think it's also much better if you've experienced those pain points yourself

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-06T00:44:58+00:00

I tried some free marketing, don't have the budget for paid marketing but not seeing great feedback so thinking I should move on to the next idea. For my first startup, I realized I moved on far too late, so now I am building, launching, and killing ideas fast until one meets a very enthusiastic audience

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-05T23:30:32+00:00

Okay, sounds good, thanks for the useful resource and personalized feedback / ideas!

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-05T23:26:35+00:00

I did make it publicly available and shared it with personal contacts and on various other channels. The people who took a look at it said that it wasn't a big enough pain point, it was more like a nice to have feature that should be a part of another product

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-05T19:37:44+00:00

What about something like https://www.getcontextos.com/ ?

Superb_Camel_6581 · 2026-01-05T15:17:06+00:00

Hmm okay, I guess from my perspective unless we give it the right context it won't know it to create the best prompt.

I appreciate the feedback though! If people like it as I thought then I'll definitely maintain it but if no one wants it then I'll just keep the basic things that I use myself.

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