How can you attract users when most of these products are not available for trial?
I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year
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#22How can you attract users when most of these products are not available for trial?
No free trial or sample testing
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#23@theo_champion nice list, but would love to see a write-up on your journey!
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#24These are not startups, most aren’t even products.
I came to write the same thing. If anything, there is far too much working code to be startups /s.
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#25You could make a nice living covertly selling the AI "startups" to wealthy folk who just want bragging rights about being founders.
Well their AI product hasn't sold for offers over 10k after >85 days, even when apparently earning 1k a month rev? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35229988
Might be a danger for devs to pile into that space
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#26I’m more interested in the tech behind these products. I have a dozen or so “apps” which amount to a python script or localhost site, but deploying them online has been a complete pain in the ass. I will spend ~8 hours perfecting a python script only to spend the next weekend figuring out how to deploy it behind a url. It’s extremely frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m not an AWS expert anymore but frankly I don’t wa…
CapRover app deployment on Digital Ocean is very cost effective.
It’s easy to deploy on a droplet using the DO scripts, and the droplets can be as cheap as you want them to be with the ability to easily scale up.
If you outgrown the biggest droplet size… congratulations! You made it!
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#27These are not startups, most aren’t even products.
It’s like most of the garbage on Product Hunt these days!
People selling Monday Workflows and AI ebooks :-/
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#28I’m more interested in the tech behind these products. I have a dozen or so “apps” which amount to a python script or localhost site, but deploying them online has been a complete pain in the ass. I will spend ~8 hours perfecting a python script only to spend the next weekend figuring out how to deploy it behind a url. It’s extremely frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m not an AWS expert anymore but frankly I don’t wa…
Vercel is the best option by far for everything you asked for. Only node.js though. Managed DB can use Planetscale or Supabase.
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#29Amazing achievement!
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#30This is definitely a entrepreneurial model that will work in the coming years. Establish a bunch of base businesses / MVPs, document them well, schedule recurring conversations with your AI to sync about the topic aka "conversational journaling/logging", then let all the agents get to work based on the new context provided.
You lost me at "schedule recurring conversations with your AI". What do you mean by that?
I imagine each project having an AI agent assigned to them in the future with their own respective personalities that pop up to discuss things at regular intervals. AI can start conversations based on my preferences rather than the on-demand only style of most chat interfaces. Push AI, not pull-only AI.