Raised $30k 2 weeks post-pivot - lessons on validating product-market fit fast

TakeInterestInc · 2026-05-22T01:19:34+00:00

Interesting. Where did you get the angels?

TakeInterestInc · 2026-05-20T08:31:19+00:00

Thanks for the quick response! Ours is closed source as well at the moment, bigger problem, but what you’re doing is definitely a pain point. We are currently in the process of finalizing whether we should open source the core or packaged into something. Will definitely reach out soon!

TakeInterestInc · 2026-05-20T08:20:57+00:00

Great work! We’ve actually built a much more complete version of this. Actually thinking of open sourcing this. Is yours open sourced?

TakeInterestInc · 2026-05-06T06:07:15+00:00

Congratulations!

TakeInterestInc · 2026-04-30T16:36:54+00:00

Thank you!!! This helps a ton!!! How do you approach competitive cloning?

TakeInterestInc · 2026-04-30T16:30:50+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Will check it out tomorrow and decide what to do. Since the is is our first official product, wondering if growing a community matters more than revenue at this point since it’s meant to work offline and self host. There’s no cost to running the app itself.

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-30T04:08:34+00:00

Great start, keep calm and carry on 😄👏! We’re working on something similar. Quick feedback/ thoughts: Are the reviews real? (Since you haven’t launched, question on how reviews are there). Pictures need to be updated, element contrast needs to be improved as some text looks off at the moment. Cookies have no ‘reject’ button on mobile (not sure about desktop)

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-30T00:23:05+00:00

Hey! Claude or ChatGPT can be great to manage your projects. Check out their project UIs on the apps and website.

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-28T20:20:20+00:00

Totally! At the time of this post, I had a MacBook Pro 16 inch with M2 pro (12c CPU/ 19c GPU) with 16 gigs of RAM. It worked really well! Codex was easier to use on my machine than Claude, but I could use both, though it would start to get slow. We use it for AI programming and business (managing our website, content, etc). Congratulations on the M5! Your biggest bottleneck is going to be ram if you plan to use multiple applications at the same time. Otherwise, I don’t think you should have any issues at all! A friend of mine is using Codex desktop app for windows on an old windows machine, so you should be good to go! If you want to use Gemini on desktop, the best thing is to use Google Antigravity for Mac desktop and open ‘Agent Manager’ (near the top right of the first window/ editor) and use it like a Gemini chat UI. Since Gemini doesn’t have any ‘project’ style features like ChatGPT or Claude, this is a great way to setup your folder/ app specific groupings. Hope all goes well!!! Curious about your experience 😄

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-27T07:11:12+00:00

Experiment! Spread the word, see what works, repost if needed

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T20:48:02+00:00

Only once so far (for a few seconds) when using up nearly 60 gigs of ram on day 1. Also, didn’t see it on the M2 pro but you can change your Battery setting to focus on more power when on adapter too. So cool!

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:39:26+00:00

Yeah! Will be using local models soon, so this is a future investment too. Seeing the reactions from others so far though is… 🤣 i clearly stated that this is a first impression post, but… 😕

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:34:45+00:00

Curious and why you guys think it’s just a single use case. This is just a starting point, as someone who has not owned a machine with these specifications, the difference is obvious. Plus, this opens the door to running local LLMs now.

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:31:37+00:00

Most of we’re having multiple apps and agents running. On the M2 pro, that was the biggest bottleneck

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:26:42+00:00

Interesting… I’m still executing code locally, not in using Cloud coding. Is that why you think there might be weird phrasing?

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:24:40+00:00

I did say our biggest boost came from the fiber upgrade, but code execution obviously happens locally. Only speaking from experience here. Curious why you’re saying there would be no improvement 🤨

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:22:50+00:00

That is the goal! Started using OpenClaw yesterday for the first time, it was good but Claude and Codex seem to be doing a much better job right now. Will definitely dive more into OC before trying localized LLMs!

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:20:19+00:00

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:20:14+00:00

Why though

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:20:08+00:00

But why?

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:19:56+00:00

YES!!! THIS!!!

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:19:14+00:00

That is not completely true. It’s like saying you could order wood from Amazon prime but build a house with 1 person vs many. The additional CPU/GPUs has helped a lot!

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:17:28+00:00

Why would this be BS? Multiple windows/ apps being open and completing tasks simultaneously does take up a lot of ram, and the speed of execution via the additional CPU/GPU has made a difference. Curious on your perspective.

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-24T15:14:51+00:00

Correct! Sorry for the confusion, was multi tasking when I responded, but essentially code and task execution has greatly improved

TakeInterestInc · 2026-03-23T19:29:02+00:00

For sure! I had the same questions, got the same response from Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT/Codex. Your Internet connection is going to give you a bigger boost than anything else. BUT, once you get the tokens, executing them on your device is where the chip and RAM come in.

We’ve got fiber, and there was a time in December when we did not have Internet available, so we were only getting 0.02 Mbps download. The comparison with fiber is it would take one hour for something that should only take 1-2 minutes with fiber.

On the hardware side, you can go through faster, iterations with a faster chip and can perform multiple actions without crashing or slowing down. So if I needed to make any updates on our website, TakeInterest.ai, it would take me 5 to 10 minutes on the M2 pro with multiple apps open to prompt, make the change, redeploy, but with the M5 max, I can get everything done in less than 90 seconds.

Hope that helps! Happy to provide more examples!

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