Ask HN: What's the Point of Your Startup?

Prediction: There will be new jobs.

My advice is to find these types of jobs, like powering data centers, cleaning up vibe coded messy codebases as a consultant.

I know of a social org which runs of entirely on its people's face to face interaction. And, these folks have consulted recently with me about how they can adopt tech to facilitate their ops. I can sit with a LLM and build a platform for them, but idk it will cover the entirety of their day to day nuances.

You can't just throw resources at a road with muddy puddles everywhere and let a autonomous vehicle figure it out all by itself.

A perfect predictable problem is solvable with large resources, but the minute you touch something human, you need a equivalent human judgement to give it the sought after direction.

I understand what you're saying.

I think it's less about this: You know about quizlet and choose to use it at $5/mo

And more about this: The average person doesn't know about quizlet and asks chatgpt to build them a flashcard app. They may pay $20/mo to have chatgpt build it.

Or this: If there's a blue ocean space where an app like quizlet doesn't exist, the competition is now 10x what it used to be. And the advertising cost is higher because there's more competition there.

Maybe you should!

The world needs more jobs and companies that are not just yet another SaaS software or AI startup.

2 kinds of value:

What you know

What you have

Knowing should lead to having, but the two are often at odds - what it means to be wealthy is roughly divided into corporate (knowing) wealth, extracted through payroll and contracts, and asset (having) wealth largely cashed out through institutions.

Knowers form consultancies, invest in startups, and ultimately sell knowledge to other knowers and a few clueless havers, but it’s only half the battle (knowing), the venturing enterprise must ultimately have what it takes