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I started a business over the last week and I

Rapidly iterated domain names with chatgpt

Did logo mockups in midjourney AI

Did website list mockups in midjourney AI

Rapidly iterated copy and cool sounding text with ChatGPT

Got font faces and style guides with ChatGPT

Got landing page code in React with ChatGPT

I can code. I would have been distracted by juggling all of the designers that I hired, so distracted that I probably would have hired a developer. Slowed down by 2-3 weeks waiting for acceptable output from the hired professionals, or discouraged and forgotten about this business idea.

I didnt lay off anybody, I also didnt hire anybody.

I looked up “prompt engineer” on fiverr just to see if that looked viable, its already oversaturated and nobody has orders in queue.

I think the “take our jobs” will start and be more pronounced with a silent lack of open positions.

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That sounds like an imitation of a business so far. How many sales have you closed? What have you delivered?

Your domain name means nothing, as long as it is not weird.

A logo is not necessary until you are big.

"Cool sounding text" does not give you sales or trust from clients.

Font faces are not of any importance when starting a business.

A well made web page with a structure and copy that is actually useful for potential clients is what is essential for an online business. An honest description of what you offer and on what terms. Good professionals can help you do this, or you can do this yourself with some effort and good sense. Bad professionals or AI will create something meaningless, window decoration.

I see a lot of programmers take the same attitude as small/medium size business owners, that the design and web site is a "storefront" or some kind of necessary evil to get done and out of the way as quickly as possible to get on with the "real work". But the actual real work is the web site if you're an online business. Your care should go into it.

sure, yet the point is that people at this stage would have hired others to help iterate, whether it generated sales or not, the transactions and velocity in the economy would have occurred from people trying things and paying others to help them.

Why did you use React for landing page?

Because I want the option of putting it on my github and showing potential employers who also use React that this is what I do in my spare time, because they like to believe that

Hedging bets by simply being consistent and staying relevant. There aren't many open source opportunities that also feel like a good a use of my time

I also like it. Specifically, I use Next.js with Typescript. A lot of components I use and will use leverage this paradigm.

Not the OP but I use React for all my small projects. I do it because it’s the right tool for the job. Why is it the right tool? Because I seems 40 hours a week working with mammoth React projects and therefore its the tool I can “just be productive” in. When working in side projects it’s critical for me to maximize time spent working on the business logic rather than reading documentation on some new tool and googling new error messages to figure out what I didn’t glue together correctly.

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