This isn't about how to build an AI-native startup, it's how to use Anthropic tools to automate 2019 style app building. An AI native startup would have AI infused into the product, and Anthropic doesn't want anyone but them to sell AI.
The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
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#153It's nice to see an explanation of how they think you should use Claude for a host of different job functions / aspects of building a business, but the tone makes it seem like founding a startup is something you wake up one morning and just decide to do instead of, say, going to the park. Over coffee, you ask Claude about your idea and when it tells you "you're a genius" you're off. That's silly in so many ways. Stat…
> Your blog post doesn't get found by anyone in Google until you've built up your SEO mojo, your LinkedIn post isn't read without the followers you need to accumulate and your content has to get engagement for people to see it even then, you don't start off line with a million followers on X, etc. I hate that this is true. It's the worst part about selling stuff online IMO and I found that you have to spend so much t…
Capitalism's solution to this "problem" is competition. If your widget sucks, but is cheaper, and mine is more. expensive, but better, then it's up to consumers to differentiate. eg Dyson makes expensive versions of gadgets. Some people see the value, others call them overpriced and then complain when the cheap knockoff sucks. It's -an imperfect system, but the free market is the solution to that problem.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#154This isn't about how to build an AI-native startup, it's how to use Anthropic tools to automate 2019 style app building. An AI native startup would have AI infused into the product, and Anthropic doesn't want anyone but them to sell AI.
pretty apt actually. After skimming through it, it's mostly a big sales pitch on how to use Claude wrapped in AI slop with generic startup advice.
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#155Maybe it's better for startups to go with natural intelligence instead of artificial intelligence, just a thought
I for one prefer natural stupidity over artificial stupidity
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#157Earlier 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…
The same thing happened in other businesses where it became easier than ever to put out content or product, but harder to break through because of all the saturation.
Exactly.
The music business is really the perfect example.
You can argue it has never been easier to break through in music.
You can also argue that it has never been more difficult.
I think what all this ultimately does is make it harder for the person who would have been doing the activity regardless.
There are a few on the margins that would not have had opportunity but now do. Most of those though are just noise generators making life more difficult for the person who would have been there either way.
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#158I've been at a few VC / startup events recently and I was stunned to see the number execs frothing at the mouth about finding a 1-person-ai-driven-billion-dollar-startup. This "playbook" is probably not going to help.
The feedback from the VC crowd is that the historical 5 year startup timeline is down to 18 months these days. That means finding PMF, funding rounds, hiring and scaling to $25 mil/year. That's the VC playbook changer which has them all worried about businesses which don't go all in for AI.
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#159Feels 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…
"Founding cannot be a commodity. If it is, you have no moat or point, meaning you instantly collapse again, because you are an interchangeable commodity." IMHO you still need to find the product and PMF There are bunch of books startup world recommends which sort of all start from the principle of product, users, traction. This is sort of scaffolding around that. It's not entirely insane to try to formalize this proc…
Yesssss. think there is a wealth of opportunity here in strictly non-scalable, probably even strictly non-profitable ways.
Where "founder" paints exactly the opposite image of what it really does unlock: everyone being able to build or tweak a little app they need; tailored just for their use cases.
A market size of a few people, a dozen, or a hundred, who can now get software that exactly services their niche. Something you'd never ever convince someone to build or maintain for you beyond the "smart niece/nephew" charity.
Could be a website for your local soccer league, a Bible reader with different font and bookmark treatment, a chart of your home canning cellar where you can send some jam to your friends and they send you kimchi.
There are probably nigh infinite tiny microcosms of unserved automation and functionality need like this. Where you can make the computer do what YOU need, not what a minimum of thousands-millions of other people mutually needed in the least common denominator.
There might even be a few larger needs in there we've missed, because they never got the chance.