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0 pointsIncipient9mo ago0 comments

It's really not the reality. AI spam is diluting the voice of 'new entrants' and removing any traffic based revenue they may get.

All I can see AI doing is entrenching those large enough to integrate it into their offerings in a meaningful way, and sustain a significantly lower cost base.

I use copilot at $10/mo. Gpt4.1 costs $2/m in and $8/m out. I'd do that in a single day, easily. There is no way any product I try and make can compete with that while consuming any meaningful number of tokens.

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csallen9mo ago

I think the problem is your mindset. While you're coming up with reasons why you can't succeed, I know hundreds of people who are actually building things that are successful. I mean TypingMind.com is literally just a GPT wrapper built and maintained by a single guy, and it makes hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.

If I told you I dropped a million dollars in the Pacific Ocean, would you look for it? No. What if I buried it somewhere in California, would you search for it then? Still no. What if I told you it was somewhere in your home, would you search? Yes, and you would probably tear your house apart.

If you want to succeed you have to try, and it only makes sense to try if you believe that things are possible. It all starts there.

IncipientOP9mo ago

I never said you can't succeed.

Also that's a very different use case as that product requires you to provide your own API key, so they're not wearing the cost of API calls. It's also a one-off fee, so hundreds of thousands per month seems like a huge number of sales.

Also that person had a great idea with typing mind.

Also your point is well taken about mindset. From a random person half way across the globe, I do want to say you've made a difference today haha, genuinely.

cowboylowrez9mo ago

the AI's will outcompete humans, so the free market says humans aren't "economically viable" (guess what movie I stole that from lol). humans need to die off so as to let the market attain its natural state where the winner takes all.

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