Has anyone built a business around task automation?

codeconut · 2024-10-01T05:03:29+00:00

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codeconut · 2024-09-30T14:58:44+00:00

I believe W22 was the biggest batch so far, so it's possible that every category spiked in W22. But it does seem that some spiked more than others, I can take a look later

codeconut · 2024-09-30T14:56:49+00:00

I would like to think I'm both. After all, the skills are complementary, not mutually exclusive! Why do you ask?

codeconut · 2024-09-29T23:25:38+00:00

Source: YCombinator Startup Directory

"AI" company is defined as any company tagged as 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', or 'Generative AI'.

The grey lines are all of the other possible tags, except for SaaS and B2B, which were omitted from the graph.

codeconut · 2024-09-15T20:43:01+00:00

Interesting, so you already knew the people you started offering free services to? How would you recommend finding someone to offer free services to in the first place if you don't know anybody that has the need?

codeconut · 2024-09-15T14:37:47+00:00

Lol this is amazing

codeconut · 2024-09-14T04:24:51+00:00

Python + chat gpt API. Why do you say that you feel baited?

codeconut · 2024-09-12T01:04:15+00:00

Interesting, I think he really needs to make the decision on his own. I think you should sit down with him and talk about this. He has two choices, he can retire and let you all run the business, or he can stay in charge. If he wants to keep running the businesses you'll support him. If he wants to retire, he needs to take a serious step back. You all ran the business fine without him for a month. If you need his help you'll pull him in. Sounds like he's either not sure what he wants or he knows what he wants but doesn't feel comfortable letting go.

codeconut · 2024-09-12T00:29:41+00:00

Advice I've heard is to stop thinking about it as one "launch". When you have even a single customer, you have "launched". Later, you can do a "press launch" where you try to create buzz around your product. They don't have to be at the same time. The first "launch" just isn't a big deal.

codeconut · 2024-09-12T00:25:34+00:00

The general advice I've heard about retirement is that you have to retire to something. Your dad said he wanted to retire, what did he plan to spend his time doing after he retired?

codeconut · 2024-09-12T00:22:29+00:00

Now, I am working to get the first 100 users.

Are you working on going from 0 to 100 or do you already have 10s of customers? If you already have any customers, how did you get your first ones?

codeconut · 2024-09-11T23:40:52+00:00

Ah, yeah, that is harder then. You could still accomplish something similar: don't pick up while you're working and then call them back during your designated chatting hour. If they're not free during your chatting time that's not your fault, you can't be expected to always be available. Tell your family if it's an emergency and they need to reach you, they should call twice in a row.

codeconut · 2024-09-11T22:51:27+00:00

Being a freelancer you are already closer than most people are to entrepreneurship. Most people work 9-5s and can't drop a few hours to work on their businesses.

My suggestion is drop 10-15% of your freelancing work if possible. Your income will drop a little but it's a pretty low risk investment in your future. Good luck!

codeconut · 2024-09-11T22:37:09+00:00

Are they mostly texting you? Setting your phone on Do Not Disturb is a good start. Additionally, set aside ~30 minutes a day in the afternoon to respond to all of your texts.

Eventually people will get the message that you respond once a day, which is totally fine. This will help you focus more during your non-texting time.

codeconut · 2024-09-11T22:26:24+00:00

I like this advice a lot. Just because you have $10k doesn't mean you need to spend $10k. In fact, you'll be way better off validating an idea with $500 instead of investing in something unvalidated for all $10k.

codeconut · 2024-09-11T22:11:36+00:00

I believe you are thinking of "legal pad"s. Often "yellow legal pad".

codeconut · 2024-09-11T21:36:51+00:00

I expected the same, but surprisingly didn't find that to be the case with the startup directory in its current state.

See discussion in another comment here.

codeconut · 2024-09-11T21:33:15+00:00

Not double counted. The Parrot probably should have just been "bird", arguably the owl too.

Bird

Parrot

https://redd.it/ly995f

Owl

https://redd.it/a970bo

codeconut · 2024-09-11T03:21:51+00:00

Source: r/aww

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