SaltMaker23

Roadblocks are the requirements for something to be worth money, if there wasn't constant roadblocks then there won't be much inside the tunnel because it'd have been plundered long ago.

Doesn't mean the tunnel isn't just filled with soil and nothing else but an inexplored hostile land is likely to hold retrievable treasures than a fully explored habitable one [where obtaining a treasure requires you to be a noble of high birth].

Lmao, this is some high quality shitpost

GPT4 is significantly more potent that the 3.5, 3 can't write heavy complex code for me and work with multiple files without making mistakes. I'm not talking about example codes, I'm talking about giving it actual working code and requesting new things to be added.

Naaahh, even experienced coders are usually shit at building an product from scratch.

By the time you can hold your weight, it's already too late.

Play your strengh, time is the most critical asset of a company you can't waste it learning a skill that is impossible learn from zero to master in a 2 years.

It's always nice to understand things because it makes discussions sooo much easier but you don't need to code.

Anyway after a year with your cofounder don't worry, you'll understand a lot about code and requirements because your tech founder will be annoying you constantly about that:

This works like this [proceeds to monologue for 30 minutes], We can't do this, we can't do that, we'd rather do it like this, we'd rather do it like that, this is easy, this is hard, this is easy, this is expensive, technical debt ...

"Off course I know him, he's me"

I'd only buy into it if YOU are en entrepreneur that makes at least 10x my yearly revenue

Around 1x if you already made exits or your businesses are much sexier than mine. (arbitrary)

I'm currently at 5M-10M$ yearly so I'm not very eager to pay to see things from people less successful than me obviously.

I'm definitely not a successful guy and definetly not "there" yet. So it has value what you are trying to offer.

But are YOU the guy that can offer it ?

Wantrepreneurs will most likely like your idea so there might be a huge audience over there.

To start yes

To make it successful no

Damn your website is sliiick.

Good job on the journey already.

From what I'm seeing from you, you are on your way to achieve great things.

Fire them all, bad attitude is a real sign of incompetence.

Bad attitude is an illness that will never stop until everything is reduced to ashes.

Cut the infected flesh before the whole body succumb.

You don't have big customers yet, you'll manage on your own until you can get high quality employees onboard

Yep, openAI isn't years ahead.

If they go south, by the time the decide to shutdown, Google, Microsoft or Facebook will already be ahead by quite a margin.

Opensource isn't also years behing either, as soon as OpenAI stops moving they'll lose all of their first movers advantage.

We use some openAI in our product because it was easier to implement, I could switch tomorrow to a competitor.

We aren't needing top notch generative AI, we need something closer to GPT3.0, ChatGPT 3.5 is already a big shot. chatGPT4.0 isn't needed.

GPT4 is way too powerful to have any use in a structured product where much weaker models, finetuned or specialized models would do the job just fine if not better.

Don't get me wrong, I use chatGPT4 daily to help me coding

While many try to approach it with the mindset of holding tight to your shares, for most people that will just jeopardize their chances of success.

"33% of something big is better than 100% of nothing"

A technical project won't get very far if you don't have expertise internally that would mean long term full time employees or a technical founder from day 1.

"It's quite hard to start a shoe repair business if you can't repair shoes yourself".

While building a tech product requires many skillsets, the main one required for an MVP being: Viable and Product.

1. Viable: You'll need someone that can generate large amount of money without a product.
2. Minimum Product: You'll need someone that can create a minimum product without much money

These two constraints are why a technical cofounder is almost a requirement otherwise costs for your product will quickly skyrocket way beyond reason and way before you have any kind of revenues.

Given your question: you don't have 1M$+ to start your company with VC friends that'll pour in 5M$ in a year or two. You won't be able to "buy" your way into a product, you have nowhere near enough money.

Our M[V]P (without the viable part) building took 12 months with 2 full time dev as founders. In our jobs we left (the 3 of us) were paid 12k€ (dev) 10k€ (dev) and 10k€ (biz) monthly.

if you were to pay 20k€ montly to have an MVP in about a year it would mean you are a PO of some kind. But it would still mean 250k€ for your MVP if you are an experienced PO. Myself as a senior dev, if I were to hire people it'd have been at least 1M€.

Startups need time in order to become successful, to find customers, get feedback, find partnerships until finally you become profitable. A 10k€/month burden might cripple your chances of success if you start small, you'll have to start BIG.

The usual thing is that:

"It's harder to run a shoe repair business if you can't repair shoes"

Start by limiting the consulting to services you, your partners, close friends or existing contacts you already have can deliver.

You can get some true external consultants, but that's a bonus for later when you have a customer base.

It's a problem like this one: "Should I hire or get customer first ? without customers I can't hire and without hiring I can't get customers"
--> Disregarding an important variable might transform an easy answer "work yourself until you have enough work to hire" into a chicken and egg problem.

You need to offer the deliverable internally for very long, it'll take very long before you can fully externalize. Even then the internalized service might still be the most popular.