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If you look at the internet as a technology category, it seems like it has never hyped down either. New things have come along in between, but in aggregate, the internet as a tech category is more hyped than ever.
So, is it the case that AI is such a fundamental technology leap that the hype will be ever compounding?
If you are a founder who launched a startup product, I would love to hear from you. In my next post, I am writing about "How to validate startup ideas". I'm reaching out to founders to help me answer some questions.
You can answer here on DM on Twitter @helghardt.
1. How did you decide what to work on in the beginning?
2. Were you solving your own problem? If not, what did you do to better understand the problem/domain?
3. Looking back what was the high-level process/steps to validate your startup idea? How long did each phase take?
4. Did the thing you originally set out to work on change? In what way?
5. What approach did you use for defining your target customer?
6. How did you find and engage with your target customer?
7. What did you measure to help you validate the value proposition?
8. How much of your validation was a gut feeling vs. actual data?
9. Did you create what customers asked, or did you land on a need that customers didn’t even know they wanted?
10. How did you approach validating your growth thesis? 11. What tools did you use, how long did it take, what worked?
12. How long did it take to validate your startup idea altogether?
13. In hindsight, what do you think could have helped you to save time?
14. What tools did you use in the process of validating your startup idea?
15. Did you build anything to help you validate your startup idea by getting early user feedback? How much time did you spend on your early MVPs before getting it in the hands of potential customers?
16. What was your biggest hurdle in validating your startup idea?
17. What aspects of the startup validation phase did you automate? If you did it now, what would you consider to automate?
18. What did you do in the startup validation phase that you think is outside of the typical advice?
19. What did you do in the process to validate your startup idea that you believe an AI would never have been able to do?
If you have any suggestions on questions that I should add or tweak, please drop a comment.
I believe these site visits played a meaningful role in developing my engineering and entrepreneurial interests/thinking. Although I only vaguely remember the details, I do have a strong lasting impression of the locations/factories we visited and people we met.
I got to see a plastic pipe molding facility, coke cola bottling factory, first wind power turbines in Cape Town area and assembled a door alarm prototype at the neighboring university. This was all before the age of 13.
In university I had similar practical exposure doing an internship at a boiler manufacturing factory, chicken processing plant and finally a tech startup.
I truly cherish these experiences and glimpses into the real world. Obviously I knew very little of what was really going on, but these experiences helped me build a sort-of mental map to unpack my options at the time.
Do you think practical site visits as a teenager is a good idea? Have you had similar exposure and did it have a lasting impact on you too? Do you think we need to create more opportunities like this for students?
Is this something more Airbnb hosts might want?
The README is great for explaining how it works, but it is not doing a great job to express the value proposition for potential end users.
I can see the value of a landing page. It opens your project to a wider audience, explains it in simple terms, invites users to engage (maybe through Discord invite) and possibly open monetization opportunities.
It is interesting to see what AutoGPT is doing on their site: https://news.agpt.co/
What do you think - is it valuable to have a landing page for a GitHub repo?
I wrote more about it in my blog: https://aisuperfounder.substack.com/p/why-your-github-repo-deserves-a-landing