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The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by owebmaster »

koe123 wrote: post #55
OtherShrezzing wrote: post #13

>As an AI-native startup founder, your responsibility is to know what's in your codebase, understand any potential exposure vectors, and not ship obvious vulnerabilities to real users who are trusting you with their data. This is fairly funny coming from the company whose employees report merging in hundreds of PRs per engineer per day, and accidentally leaked their own source code through a security misconfiguration…

100 PRs a day? I am sure this is hyperbole but otherwise you have a quote for me?

Here's your quote:

"employees report merging in hundreds of PRs per engineer per day"

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by kevsim »

neya wrote: post #76

I wish hyperlinks used underlines. The worst possible UX is making your hyperlink resemble normal text, especially on a dark background. Sigh. Here is the direct link to the slides: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6889473510b50328dbb70ae6/...

They've got underlines for me at least

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by Schiendelman »

watwut wrote: post #60
Schiendelman wrote: post #20

I think it's easy for those already in the tech industry to pooh-pooh this, as the previous comments on this post have. Right now, people with ideas prompt their LLM by saying "I know how to make x, how do I turn that into a business?" Anthropic knows that, and releasing a playbook like this is a way to make people who haven't asked that question think to ask it. For a non-technical person with a small business they…

> Can you imagine having a knitting business, and suddenly being able to gauge interest for different colors with a website selector you'd have no idea how to automate? This does not sound like an issue small craft businesses have, but something programmer think is a thing.

I think you're thinking of the value in "creating a selector", which is not my point.

Businesses need to gauge interest and experiment with options. Knitting colors was my example of that, since I've got some personal experience helping a knitting business.

If you're a nontechnical craft business owner, the work of figuring out what questions to ask to grow your business is absolutely nonintuitive, and it's one of the things LLMs are best at. The fact that it can also modify your website or listing or what have you is an additional benefit; I chose to use that specific benefit to make the concept potentially more legible to the HN audience.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by mihir_kanzariya »

hypfer wrote: post #6

Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…

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Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by asim »

> The traditional startup growth arc assumes that the path from idea to scale is validate → raise → hire → build → raise again → grow → hire more → repeat. Now, AI has erased the expectation that each new phase in the startup lifecycle requires a bigger team, a different skill set, and a fresh funding round.

From 2015-2019 I spent the whole time saying "If I don't write the code nobody does". It was the point of saying to do anything requires a team, to build that team you need funding. It was a vicious cycle and took a long time to get enough traction to raise funding and do that... and then you end up in the MVP loop -> hire -> build -> validate -> rehire -> rebuild -> revalidate. Today all of that has changed. You don't necessarily need the team to write the code, it's for a different function entirely, maybe the original function which is the team was the orchestration engine for all the different pieces at play to make a company and product successful. The code is only half the equation. Looking forward to seeing how solo entrepreneurs leverage these tools and how teams transform using them.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by ElProlactin »

dakolli wrote: post #48
ElProlactin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AI has not changed that. But it has. AI can help you do market research, develop buyer personas, evaluate potential customers, create, analyze and enrich prospect lists, evaluate marketing channels, create ad copy, write sales scripts, think through objections and how to respond, etc. Will it turn you into Jordan Belfort? No. Will it be 100% successful or effective? No. But can it help enough to make a difference?…

If you're using AI for your marketing you're going to get lumped into a slop category, with plenty of other products to keep you company. Only people with AI psychosis actually believe this garbage. All LLM output has a cheap stench to it that's impossible to ignore. There is no shortcut to hardwork, but llms somehow have people thinking that is the cases, it plays so well into people's desire to be as lazy as possib…

Outside of the tech/AI bubble, you'd be amazed at how few people can spot AI-generated content, and how few people seem to care if they think the AI-generated content speaks to their needs.

I know a small business that generates many of their leads by responding to posts on social media. They recently started using AI to create personalized comments responding to these posts instead of generic comment templates they used before. The number of leads they're generating from their social media commenting has skyrocketed.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by sdevonoes »

sturza wrote: post #43
ElProlactin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AI has not changed that. But it has. AI can help you do market research, develop buyer personas, evaluate potential customers, create, analyze and enrich prospect lists, evaluate marketing channels, create ad copy, write sales scripts, think through objections and how to respond, etc. Will it turn you into Jordan Belfort? No. Will it be 100% successful or effective? No. But can it help enough to make a difference?…

Assumption: now everyone can do more of the above. The final line is still selling. So everyone will get to the sales part, FASTER. Triage will still happen at this stage, regardless of AI. You won’t be able to avoid this triage, regardless of how fast you get there.

By that logic, same can be said about code. So, ig everyone “gets there” equally fast, then nobody has an advantage

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by watwut »

ElProlactin wrote: post #53
jurgenaut23 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anything, AI has made it more difficult and challenging because every customer and investor is drowning in AI-generated collaterals, websites, etc. The situation is dire in the academic world, where both the applicants and the reviewers now rely so heavily on AI that both publishing and financing has turned into a lottery. I am positive this will settle down at some point, but the difference will always remain abo…

> If anything, AI has made it more difficult and challenging because every customer and investor is drowning in AI-generated collaterals, websites, etc. In many markets, yes. If you're a software buyer, for example, your inbox, LinkedIn, etc. is filled with AI-generated sales outreach. And you know it's AI. But keep in mind that there are tons of markets (think local services) where buyers aren't familiar with AI. Th…

> They don't know that what they're reading was produced by AI, and they wouldn't care.

It does not matter of they are drowning in it. If their inbox is filled with slop pitches, whether AI or not, they will stop reading.

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