Belmeez

joined 10 months ago
[–] Belmeez@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

This is great. Thanks for the recommendation

[–] Belmeez@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Right.

And even pre-anything substantial it seems like it’s tough to find those just as passionate as you are. Maybe that’s just my experience

[–] Belmeez@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I came across this a while back and even asked the question in my MBA course where the professor was a serial entrepreneur 9+ exits, 100m average exit and he brought a legal expert in ventures to talk to the class.

The answer pretty much boils down to:

  1. Did you use any specific tools that the company had access to that you otherwise would not have. Think expensive software licenses, expensive equipment etc. (not generic tools like a laptop)

  2. It’s incredibly hard for a company to prove that they own your “invention” because you built it on company time. It’s not enough for you to just have worked on it during company time.

Hope this helps

 

It seems like the hardest part and the one thing keeping me from really jumping into a venture is finding a serious partner.

I am technical, I love to build software and have been working in an industry full of problems that can be solved and addressed through effective software.

However, it’s almost impossible to find a partner who:

  1. Is just as passionate as I am about my specific industry and specific problems I want to solve.

  2. Can bring a skill set that complementary to my own.

Anyone else feel this?

[–] Belmeez@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What problem is this site solving?

Is it that folks can’t find laravel PHP devs through traditional recruiting channels (LinkedIn, indeed, etc) and they desperately need to fill these positions and it’s taking forever?

I think you need to answer that first question very honestly.

Why would they use your site when they can use more established recruiting platforms? What are the chances LinkedIn will have a much better candidate pool vs your site?

You almost have a network effect situation in your hands. Personally, that’s a nightmare for me.

[–] Belmeez@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My example was a simple one but consider the alternative.

Entering an order in an ERP requires filling out a form. Anywhere between 10-30 fields, many of which are indirectly redundant (which customer, now which address, etc)

Many times it’s also hard to know what the right information is. I know what the product is called in the field but does it have the same name internally? (Even worse if it’s just a product ID)

So entering an order in many cases is a 20-40 minute affair, and that’s just a single order.

If you use a generative AI on top of this process, you can just free form text like you and me and millions of others already know how to do and get those orders out by just describing the order. You can even describe 20 orders at the same time and get them all in.

Oh and for new people joining an org, the ERP method is even slower. The learning curve is steep

 

Hey all,

I have an idea like many of you to start leveraging generative AI like GPT as a foundation but build my own models on top of it.

Essentially I want to find a really annoying business process in an enterprise and then introduce AI to that process to completely streamline it or eliminate the manual component of it.

Example, I’m a sales person and I would like to submit all the orders I got from my customers today. Instead of emailing an admin or me having to go into an ERP and key them in, I just type up my orders in a chat gpt like interface and it will automatically route those orders into my ERP and enter them for me and then I just go about my day.

Are enterprises receptive to this kind of software? Will they trust a small company to do it?