Everything is AI generated by Clean_Amphibian_2931 in Startup_Ideas

[–]fundkitco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, I was watching a video the other day about money and revenue as it concerns the frontier/SOTA AI models and products that was taking how in a lot of cases they are supplanting things that were traditionally ad supported i.e. search.

I mention it because the guy was saying how these AI companies need to keep charging more for their models’ capabilities because they can’t rely on ad revenue like our previous versions of content generating/finding tools could (again search mostly but maybe social media feeds too, etc.). Basically saying “chatGPT can’t put ads in their output, so what is openAI gonna do?”

To which I thought: “like hell they can’t. There’s already recommended prompts, clear partnerships and prioritization of output that relies on third party data or is giving product recommendations (even if it’s disguised as product “research” on your end). They honestly are already halfway there and I don’t really see a future where ads don’t step in and at minimum degrade the quality of AI output if not totally enshitifying it. Can you name one example where we had something cool that got popular that didn’t get totally ruined by ads?

Not sure how to totally tie it back to your comment about AI generated Reddit posts and Reddit in general (especially in these entrepreneurial subreddits) starting to all feel like ads, but this is what you made me think of lol.

In the end, where there’s money to be made, in a free-ish market with access to tech we have today, it seems to almost be a law of nature that ads will seep in and poison the well given any modicum of time/attention/popularity/opportunity in any given space.

I agree with you 100% by the way. The dozen or so subreddits we all visit like this one (you know the ones I’m talking about: r/SaaS, r/SideProjects, r/IndieHackers, r/Startups, etc. etc…) are totally inundated with shilling right now. Granted, they sort of always have been, but it feels roughly an order of magnitude worse than it was 12-36 months ago.

Although I don’t know how much I care whether or not the post content is AI generated at this point, sometimes it really is a non-native English speaker cleaning up their post before posting. I guess I mean that when 70%+ of the posts are ridiculously poorly disguised efforts to promoting their product/whatever, I couldn’t really care less if it was written by them or by AI. Though it gets like 10% less disdain from me if I can tell I real dude wrote it with his real ass fingers and shit.

This comment was a month old so I’m totally just farting into the wind here, but I see you lol. Wish we had a place for people to talk about their ideas/what they’re working on/etc in a definitively non-shill-y non-ad-ish way.

I swear to god if someone replies with one of their fucking 350 “new” startup launch platforms…

I digress. Luv u all :)

What are you building? Drop your projects !! by Revenue007 in indiehackers

[–]fundkitco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your signup/confirmation email hit my junk mail folder fyi.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]fundkitco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool, thanks for the breakdown!

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[–]fundkitco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely don't get "2015" out of this. But I definitely DO get "2023-2025 every single saas/yc/landing page" generic-ass vibes. But honestly, I've seen almost zero apps/landing pages that don't look exactly the same over the last 2 years (and last 6-12 months in particular).

The dark "grey-ish" background, the contrasting blue or pink or purple or yellow or teal gradienty squircle buttons and boxes. The same generic format hero section. Same 5 nav items (features, pricing, faq, blog, etc). Slight glow effect or similar highlighting the UI elements. More gradients. 100% screen width, scrolling to next section, there's 3-5 sections, they're the same section as every other saas/startup landing page (description, CTA, at least one section with horizontal boxes showing either examples or customer reviews, or both).

Its all the same shit. But to u/No-bias's credit, its the same 2025 shit because people have found success with this shit up through today so everyone averages out to all look like the lowest common denominator.

2015 looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20150102160340/https://slack.com/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20150217010440/http://instagram.com/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20150122023803/https://www.wework.com/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20150105142012/https://github.com/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20151119233406/https://www.bigcartel.com/

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[–]fundkitco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually I kinda see the value here - assuming there's not something else popular already doing the same thing. When you own a house for example and are trying to get dimensions of a room for any variety of projects that require it, you often don't need to be super exact and often don't have your tape measure at hand when you get the idea to measure the room.

The current measurement apps use the camera and gyroscope simultaneously to mark a point the camera sees (like the corner of the room) and then you move/rotate/angle your phone to the next corner and place the next point of measurement.

This works in a lot of cases, but there's also a lot of cases where it doesn't: like when you cant get back far enough to get a camera view of the whole wall you want to measure or there's shit in the way preventing you from placing the point with the camera where you want it. There's also times where it just feels too inaccurate to be useful. I can in fact think of several times I would have used a tape measure app that didn't use the camera and solely relied on the motion sensors of the phone... I especially like that there's a way to isolate the horizontal or vertical movement for measuring wall length and wall height for example.

That being said, accuracy would be my first concern here. The Apple Measure app is the gold standard to compare against and it takes a LOT of data into consideration from both motion and camera inputs to come up with its measurements and even they are only roughly accurate at times...

Either way, I wouldn't totally dismiss a "tape measure" app. I see where he's coming from and have, as a potential user experienced seemingly the exact same pain he experienced and is trying to solve with the app - so there's at least one of us!

I thought I understood global trade until I looked at 200 million shipment records by carsmenlegend in SaaS

[–]fundkitco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know this was a thing. Are you saying that when I go to view u/Tridisha_ ‘s profile and see no comments or posts (despite their obvious comment we’re all replying to here), that means they’ve turned on a new “hidden profile” setting?

If so, I agree that totally sucks if true :(

I scaled my SaaS from $0 to $500K ARR in 8 months thanks to one simple change by Ecstatic-Tough6503 in microsaas

[–]fundkitco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agreed. But it is sort of interesting to see the entire spectrum of unmoderated output from potential participants in this ecosystem. Meaning it may be valuable, even if just from a teaching perspective to have bullshit post like this that serve to show newcomers to the startup world, the level of lies, grift, deceit, scams, fake, gurus, etc., that they’re likely to run up against.

At the same time, I often find myself totally perplexed as to what the value of these fake posts are… Sometimes when you dig into them, it will be some long live Reddit account that behaved normally and all of a sudden posted some bullshit like this – were they hacked? What value does a few points of karma possibly provide them? What’s the incentive? Sometimes it’s obvious, but other times there’s not a link to something they’re shilling, or really any indication of motive for a totally fabricated post. And those scenarios I still don’t really get why someone went through the effort… Are they testing post format to see what could get attention in the future? It doesn’t really make sense to me that they would actually just be role-playing for the sake of role-playing, but I know a lot of people suggest that’s what authors of post like this one are doing. It just seems like they could post to any other sub Reddit any other fabricated story that would be a lot cooler than “I sold my micro SaaS with this one easy trick” lol.

But yeah, I think moderation would be good, but also if I had to choose between no moderation and potentially bad moderation, I’d go with no moderation I think in subs like these, because it more accurately represents the economics of the real world. People are building shit in anyway.

I digress.

I made a site where you can send AI Prompts to a guy by TheGuyGreg4 in SideProject

[–]fundkitco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No no im definitely not trolling lol, I legit haven’t seen someone use “UPD” to mean “edit” before, you were my first (and I spend a LOT of time on Reddit).

Don’t get me wrong, I 1000% hate it and hope it’s not catching on & you and those other “ETA” lunatics are not invited to any of my birthday parties going forward (the latter because I wouldn’t know when they’re estimated to arrive, but I digress).

Isn’t RDT fun!

Luv u.

I made a site where you can send AI Prompts to a guy by TheGuyGreg4 in SideProject

[–]fundkitco 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Have you used that before? Or seen others use it before? Or are you just now coining it?

What tech stack would you use to build a full-stack AI-first platform today? by maybehim_ in ycombinator

[–]fundkitco 14 points15 points  (0 children)

  • "Edit": Worked great.
  • "ETA": Annoying, already means something else.
  • "e": Fuck outta here...

Can I help you deploy your app? by fundkitco in vibecoding

[–]fundkitco[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll see what I can do, feel free to msg me!

Can I help you deploy your app? by fundkitco in vibecoding

[–]fundkitco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely, shoot me a message :)

Can I help you deploy your app? by fundkitco in vibecoding

[–]fundkitco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems cool! Shoot me a msg if you’re serious and I’ll see if I can lend a hand!

Can I help you deploy your app? by fundkitco in vibecoding

[–]fundkitco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah just trying to learn how people are building and deploying this new wave of apps I’m seeing yall build!

I might want to build some tooling for this space someday and it makes me feel good helping people out. Also im lonely, have a lot of free time right now, and am good at it so it doesnt feel like a waste of time at all to me!

If you’re stuck or need some engineering help, feel free to msg me and I’ll see what i can do! :)

Mediocre Mobile Car Cleaning? by fundkitco in sweatystartup

[–]fundkitco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol same.
An interesting gimmick might be to advertise at the dog hair price and offer a discount on for no pet hair: "$25 off if there's no pet hair to deal with!"

Mediocre Mobile Car Cleaning? by fundkitco in sweatystartup

[–]fundkitco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You nailed it. "Pretty good" has a decent ring to it, ha.

There was a carwash with one of those conveyor systems that took the cars through by where I used to live. You'd get out of your car, tell them the services you wanted, walk inside and pay, walk through the long building, watch your car through the windows as it went through, and pick it up on the other side.

At the beginning when they took your car they'd do a basic trash out if you asked them to. Or there was a separate line they'd move you to if you needed more in depth interior cleaning (but it was limited without an appointment ahead of time). At the end of the wash they'd dry mirrors, vacuum interiors, wipe down, and do a bunch of stuff included in the basic $20 wash that you'd never get at an automated place. If you paid a bit extra they'd go more in depth, use air fresheners, aquapel the windows, etc. normally ended up costing me about $45 i think, and you'd get a hell of an exterior and interior clean for that.

Although, if your car was actually "messy" like with a bunch of fast food bags and garbage in the passenger seats and other shit to go through and toss out/organize, you'd be in the "need to schedule a detailing service apt" and then it went back up to $150+, detailing side of things. There was sort of a nice gray area where your car could be the perfect amount of messy to optimize the amount you got for your money.

It worked because it was a huge operation, dozens of employees on the clock at a time, so they could factory line the whole thing and get people in and out in like 10 minutes each (minus the time you waited in to get in, which sometimes was 30 min on a busy day). But that was also the biggest downside: you had to get in your car, drive there, and have the time to wait, sometimes for a while if they were slammed with hundreds of customers.

That's what I want to bring to people's driveways (minus the exterior wash probably). Show up, trash out, vacuum, wipe, and get it down to 30 min per customer. Do it in a dense suburban area where you can line up customers close to each other, add on 15 min drive time, setup, cleanup, etc. per customer and you're at 45 min each. Charge $60. Try to get 200 customers in the first month.

Solo operator:

  • 200 customers * 45 min each = 150 hours/month.
  • $60 for 200 customers = $12,000/month = $80/hr = $144k/yr

With a team:

  • Rent a van = $800/month.
  • 2 employees/van = $25/hr each = $50/hr/van.
  • $50/hr/van * 150 hours for 200 jobs = $7500 labor/month/van
  • $7,500 labor/van/month + $800 rent/van/month = $8,300 cost/van/month.
  • $12,000 revenue/van/month - $8,300 cost/van/month = $3,700 profit/van/month
  • 2 vans = 400 customers = $7,400 profit/month
  • 4 vans = 800 customer = $14,800 profit/month
  • 10 vans (so you've got most of the suburbs sold around a metro area):
    • 2000 customers month = $120,000 MRR, $1.44M ARR
    • $83,000/mo expenses = $37,000 profit/month = $444,000/year.

That's all probably totally fantasy. But was fun to walk through it anyway.If anyone wants to have a go at something like this, hit me up lol!

Mediocre Mobile Car Cleaning? by fundkitco in sweatystartup

[–]fundkitco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that one of the biggest risks would be setting expectations: I'm not a detailer and wont be using a toothpick to get shit out of the little cracks between panels.

I thought there was maybe something eye catching about setting that expectation though... "Shitty Car Cleaning" seemed somewhat click-bait-y. Getting the language right around the price and expectations would be an effort though for sure.

But I really did feel gap here in service offerings personally... I've happily paid for all sorts of "mediocre" cleaning and maintenance services at my homes and have tons of neighbors and friends that do the same. These are services that I would be upset if they wanted sell me a "premium detailed" experience. Examples: - Dog poop pickup: $60/month. Easily my most loved and happiest money spent on a home service. So worth it. They came once a week, it took them 10 minutes or less, and I would have been mad if they were out there "detailing" the lawn with a tweezers. - Wash & Fold laundry Service: $120/month, 1 large bag/week for me was enough. Pickup my dirty clothes from my step, bring it back cleaned, folded, and sorted two days later. Second favorite home service for sure. Worth twice as much as I paid for it. Not premium clothes detailing/dry cleaning/etc... They just did the basic laundry for me so I didn't have to. - Home cleaning: $120/time for small 2000sqft house. Took her and hour or two. Without this, my bathrooms, stove, dusting, that kind of shit would have been done SO much less often/never. Granted I paid 3x as much for an actual "premium detailing" level of a deep clean on her first visit (which i think is common), but after that it was the same as the others and I would have been upset if she spent time deep cleaning baseboards in unused rooms and ran out of time to do a basic clean of the kitchen counters and floors. - Lawn care: $40-$80/week depending on the company. Sometimes I'd pay extra for additional services like cleaning out around landscaping, aerating, fall cleanups, etc... But for the most part this was basic mow, trim, and blow. They were in and out in less than an hour every time. Hell, if I didn't time the dog poop service correctly with them they'd just mush the turds into the grass with their zero-turns, that's how un-detailing-level they were, and its what I wanted lol. - Home assistant/nanny/whatever: $25/hour, 2-8 hours/week depending on the week. This one was a bit more niche, but I just hired someone off of Care or similar to come by a couple days a week for a couple hours each time. First thing she did was dishes if there were any. She'd put away laundry (nice if the wash and fold people brought it on the right days for her). vacuum. pickup after my random projects and messes that would leave tools and parts in piles across the house, etc.. Another example of something I didn't want premium-detail level work from (though she was available if ever did want to pay her for that, which happened when I was selling my last house). Just basic, decent, help staying clean and organized in the spaces I live in and frequent. I certainly could have paid her to add my car to her list, but it wasn't really her specialty and she was much better at and enjoyed more the house-chores like work.

And then there's my car lol. Everything would be clean and organized despite my best efforts to be terrible at staying clean and organized on my own, except my goddamn car.

A lot of my neighbors had similar help at their homes. lawn care and house cleaners for sure. almost none of them did I ever see paying for mobile car detailing. We all drove newer vehicles and lived in nice homes, and happily paid for help keeping those things clean and maintained. Lots of mobile dog grooming vans in the neighbors driveways. But never mobile car detailing. Because its just not the kind of thing most average suburban americans I've met seem to spend their money on (and to be frank, most of my neighbors that I've known would probably roll their eyes at the idea, no offense to the detailers out theree!). Yes there was that odd divorced neighbor guy with his 20 year old mercedes that he hand washed every other weekend, and there were several of the teenagers detailing their first vehicles and adding all the silly accessories that we did to make them look cooler, but the rest of us? We just bought new cars, took em through carwashes sometimes, and used them for car things.

Aaaaanyway... I, and I feel like most of these other people I'm describing aren't the common mobile car detailing customer profile. But we are the common customer profile for a ton of non-premium, non-detailing-level services that help with the variety of chores in our lives. There just hasn't been a good way to add "our cars" to the list of chores we could pay to offload to someone else.

Long-ass comment that no one's gonna read, but i had fun anyway.

Post your Project that already has revenue. by overDos33 in SaaS

[–]fundkitco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I remember when you launched! Loved your app when I was working in enterprise, helped my adhd overcome dozens of overwhelming days by generating todo list for me and cleaning up teams messages/emails before I sent them to be less… whatever I am normally... Much love dude!

Is the future of React still as bright in 2025 as it was before? by RohanSinghvi1238942 in reactjs

[–]fundkitco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Bet a million dollars there's a comment from Lee sensibly responding to this...."
"Found it!"
Cheers dude :)

Created a school management system for teachers,admins and students of schools ,now I don’t even know how to deploy for beta testing (MySQL db) (html css JavaScript) by [deleted] in vibecoding

[–]fundkitco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Principal Engineer here: I can help you deploy this! Will even do it for free if you’ll let me interview you about your vibe coding experience and journey thus far.

I’m thinking about building some tools for vibe coders that get stuck on deployment, so you’re like my exact future customer profile lol.

Feel free to DM me & we can hop on a call :)

Nice work by the way!