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It's crazy how AI folks are re-inventing literal Internet spam
I mean that was the most obvious use case from the start.
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#182I don’t get how anyone thinks that spending 100s of hours over and over again on projects that make $0 is a good idea. “Definition of insanity” and all that. You are in denial that you are unemployed, you might as well do something more interesting or enjoyable.
There is an argument to be made that it's good training, like coding kata's just with the end to end.
If you're looking to make a living off of it, the training argument only works if you then go on to used the trained skills though.
In this instance, if the numbers provided are to be believed they made bank.
i'm seeing a six figure sale on a five figure investment, among others.
Though i suspect, like is usually it, that the provided cost numbers are much higher in reality when factoring in time and opportunity cost etc.
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#183I see one of the products and I already hate the OP. Thanks https://replyguy.com/
Wow, they're actually proud of a marketing spam post that convinced a depressed person struggling with debt that they're being listened to and understood, while possibly convincing them to try some predatory lending service (I assume, since that "debt freedom now" site is telling me how much debt "Americans in București" are erasing right now!). Having this as a success story you brag about is sociopathic.
The website doesn't work anymore. But yeah it sucks
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well Pieter Levels has a negative customer acquisition cost because he gets most of his business off of X and he gets so many impressions that he gets paid to post there. That's a pretty incredible marketing hack if you ask me. I invest in startups and the ones who do really well hack marketing. They have tech in their stack that is specifically devoted to automating and scaling their marketing.
But if you listen to Levels' interviews, especially before his Twitter stardom, you will see that he always promotes the find your audience and build to them approach.
Amusingly enough the product that makes him the most is PhotoAI and that doesn't seem to target his audience at all.
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#18537 is one of those numbers that keeps popping up in certain places. Whenever I see it in a headline, I go in feeling like I'm about to be bullshitted by the author.
You might be interested in this video by Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98
I think that Jason Fried knew about that.
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#186I see one of the products and I already hate the OP. Thanks https://replyguy.com/
It makes me sad that I cannot trust comments that talk about products or services anymore. Now I understand why people are using TikTok for search. Seeing the person can helps with the trust, even if the problem is the same (they can be paid as well).
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#187Indiehackers was the place that finally made me realise trying to bootstrap a tech product is almost always pointless. There's almost always a far better way to allocate your time.
That's a strange conclusion to come to just based on some people on a website. What's a a "far better" way to allocate your time?
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#188The biggest problem I have, is that, even though I know from experience that I should talk to customers to understand their problems and build a solution that provides them value, and spend time talking to them to understand the value proposition, how to communicate it, and how it fits into their workflow, I don't enjoy those bits, and I prefer to just code things I want to build. I prefer to willfully delude myself…
Sounds like you could use some input from someone experienced with product marketing. They are all about this kind of communication, both expressing ideas to potential customers and hearing their feedback from initial exposure.
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#189Indiehackers was the place that finally made me realise trying to bootstrap a tech product is almost always pointless. There's almost always a far better way to allocate your time.
Yup same, the whole toxic culture of lies surrounding it makes things worse as theres people trapped in this weird little bubble of believing half the stories on there. Most are completely fabricated. For me personally I gave up on SaaS a couple of years ago and shifted my focus elsewhere. I ended up building a site in a niche I've always loved, and it ended up making me love that hobby even more, and now I have a pl…
Lots of products on IH are Stripe verified though.
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#190I see one of the products and I already hate the OP. Thanks https://replyguy.com/
It makes me sad that I cannot trust comments that talk about products or services anymore. Now I understand why people are using TikTok for search. Seeing the person can helps with the trust, even if the problem is the same (they can be paid as well).
There are lots of ads on TikTok too, even more insidious than on forums.