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Dimeadozen.ai – AI-powered market research for any startup

41 points by vyrotek 3y ago

metadat 3y ago
One of the stated arguments "in favor of" my submitted concept was actually a point against it. That's the thing about counting on LLMs..
spzb 3y ago
Really confused as to why 30,000 businesses would want to pay forty bucks each for the output of a large language model. It’s maybe one step up from an infinite number of monkeys but an insane distance away from market research.
- gumballindie 3y ago
  Remember them crypto sites that claimed users in the tens of thousands that never existed? Yeah this is them rebranded and pivoted.
- andrewstuart2 3y ago
  > Uses AI to generate "market research" for entrepreneurs. > Has 30k "definitely not generated" feedback blurbs from entrepreneurs.
kappuchino 3y ago
Fails already by the title: 10 cents for a dozen ... token? I thought good suggestions. Not hollow replies from a too generic LLM Setting. Instead: 40 bucks for one report ... in which it susggests to compare my idea (specific newsletter) to etsy, AirBnB, Uber ... whaaat?! Nope. I bet the idea was good on paper, as a mockup and in self-testing. But it is not working for those who need help for a niche, which is a lot.
ilikeitdark 3y ago
It failed with my gold laminated butt plug idea I've had bouncing around my head for ages.
- ausbah 3y ago
  *in my butt for ages. sorry had to :)
ShamelessC 3y ago
Who upvotes this sort of thing?
- dbish 3y ago
  Folks who don’t understand market research or love the chaos? I for one thing most human based market research is low quality anyway, so why not just make something up.
  - disgordian_knot 3y ago
    fnord
- KevinGlass 3y ago
  This looks like just a prompt and website around the GPT api. Why on earth anyone would pay for this is baffling.
- czbond 3y ago
  The report outcome in depth is good enough, detailed enough to start iterating on pushing forward rather than having to start from nothing.
  - ShamelessC 3y ago
    Just grab a template and ask ChatGPT to fill it out for you. That’s all this is doing.
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tankmohit11 3y ago
reminds me of this article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502
gumballindie 3y ago
"Trusted by over 30,000 businesses, investors, and analysts" I doubt these numbers.
- swyx 3y ago
  what, you dont believe https://www.dimeadozen.ai/testimonials https://www.dimeadozen.ai/testimonials is generated by real humans?
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primitivesuave 3y ago
This is actually one of the better use cases of generative AI that I've seen so far. The killer feature that would get me to purchase a $40 report is to see the competitor landscape - this is a big reason why entrepreneurs pay for Crunchbase Pro. One annoyance I have with market research sources today is having to first select a broad industry, then narrow down the thousands of companies within that industry by quantifiable metrics (employees, fundraising, etc). It would be so much more useful to find the most semantically-relevant companies to the one I'm researching, and maybe even see an auto-generated feature comparison chart.

41 points by vyrotek 3y ago

One of the stated arguments "in favor of" my submitted concept was actually a point against it. That's the thing about counting on LLMs..

spzb 3y ago

Really confused as to why 30,000 businesses would want to pay forty bucks each for the output of a large language model. It’s maybe one step up from an infinite number of monkeys but an insane distance away from market research.

gumballindie 3y ago
Remember them crypto sites that claimed users in the tens of thousands that never existed? Yeah this is them rebranded and pivoted.
andrewstuart2 3y ago
> Uses AI to generate "market research" for entrepreneurs. > Has 30k "definitely not generated" feedback blurbs from entrepreneurs.

kappuchino 3y ago

Fails already by the title: 10 cents for a dozen ... token? I thought good suggestions. Not hollow replies from a too generic LLM Setting. Instead: 40 bucks for one report ... in which it susggests to compare my idea (specific newsletter) to etsy, AirBnB, Uber ... whaaat?! Nope. I bet the idea was good on paper, as a mockup and in self-testing. But it is not working for those who need help for a niche, which is a lot.

ilikeitdark 3y ago

It failed with my gold laminated butt plug idea I've had bouncing around my head for ages.

ausbah 3y ago
*in my butt for ages. sorry had to :)

ShamelessC 3y ago

Who upvotes this sort of thing?

dbish 3y ago
Folks who don’t understand market research or love the chaos? I for one thing most human based market research is low quality anyway, so why not just make something up.
- disgordian_knot 3y ago
  fnord
KevinGlass 3y ago
This looks like just a prompt and website around the GPT api. Why on earth anyone would pay for this is baffling.
czbond 3y ago
The report outcome in depth is good enough, detailed enough to start iterating on pushing forward rather than having to start from nothing.
- ShamelessC 3y ago
  Just grab a template and ask ChatGPT to fill it out for you. That’s all this is doing.
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tankmohit11 3y ago

reminds me of this article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502

gumballindie 3y ago

"Trusted by over 30,000 businesses, investors, and analysts" I doubt these numbers.

swyx 3y ago
what, you dont believe https://www.dimeadozen.ai/testimonials https://www.dimeadozen.ai/testimonials is generated by real humans?

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primitivesuave 3y ago

This is actually one of the better use cases of generative AI that I've seen so far. The killer feature that would get me to purchase a $40 report is to see the competitor landscape - this is a big reason why entrepreneurs pay for Crunchbase Pro. One annoyance I have with market research sources today is having to first select a broad industry, then narrow down the thousands of companies within that industry by quantifiable metrics (employees, fundraising, etc). It would be so much more useful to find the most semantically-relevant companies to the one I'm researching, and maybe even see an auto-generated feature comparison chart.