I just want to share a thought:
~ Better focus on making fitter, cheaper, faster versions of things that are already out there than products like "sleeveless hoodies", probably there is a demand for everything but the difference is huge ~
I see myself jumping directly into projects without having an audience first, not even a target... I just get too excited about the project and I start building it.
For sure I'm doing it wrong, when the project is finished nothing happens, and then the next project. I learned a ton, and I recommend anyone starting coding to do the same, 1-10 projects from scratch (be ambitious, no fear, no limits, it's for learning).
But after the ~10th, you just waste your time ... you could be with your family, your dog, yourself, but you are there trying again another idea because you got too excited to build, not cool. You have to keep learning, not staying in a never ending loop.
In a capitalist society, something that is cheaper, faster or more convenient (easy to use, fits better in your life, ....) it's just unstoppable, people want it right away.
Why not focus on that? This is like an evolutionary process. Better specie appears, it adapts better to the environment, the new specie is FASTER or better ADAPTED, so, wins, because it's UNSTOPPABLE. It flys or runs faster, it can get food from places the others can't, it's bigger, it's XYZ ... it's the new cool friend of the environment, need to convince nobody, it's like it is and it fits better.
What do you think will happen if you make something that is very expensive, very cheap? Why AI is UNSTOPPABLE? AI have all 3: Faster, Cheaper, Fitter.
Better leverage that "force of nature" and build something UNSTOPPABLE, because it's more convenient than the other solutions out there. At the same time you will be pushing the world & the society go further, if you go this way you will be solving problems in areas like Communications, Transport, Health, Finance, etc... making sleeveless hoodies is cool, and probably there is a demand for it, but it's very STOPPABLE.
Thanks for reading.
Cheaper, Faster, Fitter ~ Unstoppable
My last sleeveless hoodie: refboost.com a Simple referrals widget, when I finished what you see, it was like ok, now to sell it ... that was a week ago and haven't did anything yet ... this post is my commitment to no start with the product again, start with the audience, the target, the first users.
"start with the audience, the target, the first user"
how are you going about this?
What do you mean? Next project I will start by looking for reddit subs, facebook pages, twitter profiles, etc...
i mean, what exacty are you doing when you day "start with audience, target, first user' ?
are you going through subreddits looking for ideas? or you have ideas and first talking to people having specific interests? pr something else?
You have to go there to check what problems they usually have, what things they would like to have, what problems they have.
Start a conversation, by asking a question, by sharing a link, by replying to something.
What you need is to find people with a problem :D and engage with them.
For example, long ago I had an idea like an airbnb for washing machines, want to make some extra bucks? share your washing machine!
I posted a comment about the idea in groups of unemployed people: Would you be open to clean your neighbour's clothes for money?
I got some positive responses, then I made up a survey with google forms, I shared it there, I got like 700 submissions! That was like very good validation, I could have first users.
Nothing built at this point. If then I wanted to build the project, would be easier: hey again guys, I made this thing, you can check it here, what do you think?
As they were already engaged and wanting to make extra bucks by sharing their washing machines, they were like happy to try it and give feedback. But I did not continue because I thought about having to store IDs and legal things I did not want to.
Makes sense?
hmm makes sense. i built a product and AFTER that i put its link pn a FB group, got one customer from there.
but i believe other way around, getting interest before product would have been better
It's not easy because we all want to build ... get rid of that, focus on making money, and to make money you need people giving it to you :D So, start with the people and end with the people, your building fun is just a byproduct, isn't it?
Definitely. However, I would say most of the products you see as "sleeveless hoodies" actually do intend to making something faster, cheaper, etc. Usually, their "sleeveless hoodie" is meant to save time, which deals with faster and cheaper since time is money.
They just don't really make it faster or cheaper enough for customers to consider switching.
For me, I'm building Evoke. We host AI models on the cloud accessible though API so devs can build AI apps easier.
Our first release will be a stable diffusion API
There's a few competitors right now, but the market for something like this is still quite early, and switching costs are very little, so it's definitely not a "sleeveless hoodie"
We have a discord as well, so there's also some brand building.
Good point, "They just don't really make it faster or cheaper ENOUGH for customers to consider switching."
The threshold is important.
I also was thinking about it because instead of focusing in you and your idea, you better focus on your market and get something unstoppable, something needed, this way you won't need marketing and will be able to focus in the product, only.
About Evoke, what's the benefit of adding an API on top of the stable diffusion API?
Being honest I don't get this kind of products, I can go directly to GPT3 o SD, why I need something in between? (honest question)
Thanks!
To clarify about Evoke, we're not adding an API on top of anything. We're making our own API with the stable diffusion AI
It's for programmers making AI apps. You can't really "go directly to SD", you have to get it on the cloud, especially with SD mobile apps or webapps.
Our API is not a UI, there is only an API where you can make calls with a few lines of code.
Interesting, but if I am building some project based on SD, I would make my own cloud deployment, on the long term, I'm not sure users will keep paying, but I guess it's good to save time while starting up and not lose time with that upfront.
It happened to me, if I'm paying for an external service I end up cloning it or deploy my solution to save money. I think that's a problem when making products for developers, if they work, they will copy it and stop paying you.
Just sharing thoughts, nothing against your evoke. Hope it makes sense and it's constructive for you. Best of luck, best of wishes.
Yep makes sense. The main issue is that setting up and managing cloud stuff (when it goes down, new updates, errors, most efficient set up) is a lot of work
So even if you're well versed in this stuff (and even a lot of good devs aren't since they specialize in other things), you still need lots of effort and time to set it up and maintain it yourself.
It's a same with larger companies. It's not always less expensive to set it up yourself when you consider maintenance costs. Since with an API, you don't have to do any maintenance at all.
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