After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
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After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
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Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#3A failed startup is nothing to be embarrassed about, most of us don't have the guts to try it!
You shouldn't expect much interest in the code, the value of a company's code without the business and people is quite negative when there isn't some technical secret sauce. Even if there was some technical wizardry people would just care about understanding how that one part worked and probably not use any of the code itself.
Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#4This is not the first story I've heard of a product that isn't quite right, but when deciding where to pivot, fell into AI as the answer and then failed. I've said it before, but it bears repeating - when we figure out what AI is good at and what it is not, we will start treating it as a tool instead of a goal, and our product ideation will stabilize.
Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#5> “Our main product was an SDK Generator that could take any OpenAPI specification and generate high-quality client libraries in multiple programming languages.”
This is something I could really use! Is there a product that does this and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?
Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#6> “Our main product was an SDK Generator that could take any OpenAPI specification and generate high-quality client libraries in multiple programming languages.” This is something I could really use! Is there a product that does this and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?
That's what we do at Stainless. By curiosity, what languages are you looking for?
Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#7This is not the first story I've heard of a product that isn't quite right, but when deciding where to pivot, fell into AI as the answer and then failed. I've said it before, but it bears repeating - when we figure out what AI is good at and what it is not, we will start treating it as a tool instead of a goal, and our product ideation will stabilize.
Are you saying AI can't rescue a bad product idea by automating things? Like more efficiently doing something nobody wants done isn't a business?
Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#8> “Our main product was an SDK Generator that could take any OpenAPI specification and generate high-quality client libraries in multiple programming languages.” This is something I could really use! Is there a product that does this and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?
liblab.com
All others are too expensive at ~250$/language/month (still less expensive than human developer).
Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#9> “Our main product was an SDK Generator that could take any OpenAPI specification and generate high-quality client libraries in multiple programming languages.” This is something I could really use! Is there a product that does this and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?
Caveat that I work for Speakeasy, but there are a few tools you can look at:
- Speakeasy
- Fern
- Stainless
First SDK with Speakeasy is free and we also have discounts for companies who are just starting out.
Feel free to shoot me an email if we can be useful: nolan@spakeasy.com :)
Re: After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
#10Although the code dump could be interesting, this appears to have no license attached. Making it properly open source would make it a lot more useful.