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submitted this because i have been doing a bunch of research around productized AI businesses (https://lspace.swyx.io/ https://lspace.swyx.io/) in preparation f
by swyx 4y ago
submitted this because i have been doing a bunch of research around productized AI businesses (https://lspace.swyx.io/ https://lspace.swyx.io/) in preparation for someday pivoting
and my latest post is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33144039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33144039
notable that in the small, this post was "wrong" - Jasper AI went from 0 to $60m/ARR in the 2 years since this post. sure, you could regard them as "winning the lottery", but i'm sure if you asked their bank accounts they wouldn't agree starting a biz around GPT3 is a bad idea :)
- samuelstros 4y agoJasper AI seems to prove the point though. If your technological advantage is not high (enough), you have to compete on marketing and distribution. Jasper AI is heavy on marketing and distribution.
- swyx 4y agowell, on a very superficial level, but [this](https://www.youtube.com/c/jarvisai https://www.youtube.com/c/jarvisai) is real work man and it also involves solid "product thinking" for nontechnical users to hold it right. http://interiorai.com/ http://interiorai.com/ is on the surface just stablediffusion, and sure pieter is an incredible marketer/has huge distribution, but he is doing real product level work to make it more usable for his chosen usecase, and that should not be ignored