Long story short, I’ve been meaning to write you a guide for your project for…

Long story short, I’ve been meaning to write you a guide for your project for a while. If you suddenly decided to build a startup, then:
- either you’re looking for a way to build distribution almost for free
- or you’ve found a way to chop hundreds of percent in margin
Everything else imo is a weird idea. Right now it’s super fashionable to ride the AI wave and build new tools (plug in a task and solve it with AI). And off everyone goes making primitive ideas, but since you can automate them that’s already a “worthy project.” Remember the dot-com bubble (everyone started making websites). Now it’s about the same. Besides the obvious “this doesn’t need to be automated,” most of it doesn’t scale and doesn’t make money even if you fully meet all the conditions.
That’s exactly why I’m very skeptical about the run rate metric (they love calling it ARR now, even though that’s a mistake). The fact you can generate big revenue at huge costs only shows the market is willing to look at AI craft projects, but it says nothing about whether anyone will need this long-term.