I would need people, so if I have no cash I'd start something holistic or FOSS and recruit volunteers that way. Eventually a community will build around it, and it will start to see some uptake. With some clever rewording of the license, I'd make the company public, pump up it's worth, and then cash out big before it collapses. Rince and repeat, sleeping soundly at night via various pills.
Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?
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#12In 2025? Probably a consulting business to help companies replace their software engineers with AI. In 2024 it would be too early, and in 2026 it would probably be too late.
LOL
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#13Something blue-collar-ish, like cleaning, plumbing, construction, repairs. Anything 'trade'. People are significantly less self-sufficient nowadays, and setting up a plumbing business (in my country, The Netherlands) would easily get me a million-euro business without too much effort.
If it has to be in tech, I would jump on the latest trend and try to squeeze it quickly before moving on.
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#14I'd pick a SaaS category with plenty of existing (non-VC) incumbents, and build something better that I personally have experience with using, just as I did in 2021.
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#15Something in the mental health space to tackle the loneliness epidemic.
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#16I have a feeling I would do something non-tech, I have a few ideas for FMCG items but I am not sure how to produce those at scale cause well its not my area of expertise, nor do I know about supply chain stuff. In terms of working capital, I don't have enough to produce it in meaningful numbers.
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#17A No Code platform. Yeah, I know it is a crowded space. There aren't that many great options yet tho, enterprise NoCode platforms are all bad, they don't know how to make good software.
Patching together a bunch of random React, NextJS, Prisma code won't do it for much longer.
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#18The economy is bad, everything is expensive, and there is absolutely no social climate for emigrating within EU. That would be scenario equal to having my country invaded, or getting cancer, so death rather than thinking about opening a business. AI is only a topic in huge enterprises, I have yet to see anyone starting from zero and earning any money with it. There is lots of money incoming to real estate, physical gold, football, and freak show fights, so if you don't mind being predatory asshole and dealing with organized crime there is potential money stream to tap into.
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#19Ask yourself `what does everybody want/need? (Hint it's not AI) Two (of many) possibilities; accommodation & food. One could investigate previous examples where startups began small and made history. Then I suggest you may need at least 2 of these: #1 A gimmick #2 Good luck #3 $$$$$$.
and add the 3rd answer as well: everyone wants money too. Make something to help make people money. Trading alerts, charting tools, stock market aggregators, crypto aggregators, anything that can push people in that direction
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#20Making systolic array chips (my BitGrid design) to bring provably secure Petaflops to the masses. They're handy for any algorithm that can tolerate extreme pipelining, including deep nets. Because everything is trivial to reason about, there's nowhere for bugs, or zero day exploits, to hide. Oh.. and we'd do an open source data diode product as well.
Do you have any other examples where systolic arrays are suitable other than matrix multiplication? As far as I am aware, other problems require different systolic architectures. So I am curious whether you are talking about a general purpose architecture.