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Solo, an AI website builder for solopreneurs

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42 pointsbrycewray18 comments

I can't think of any less inspired and inspiring project for the Mozilla Foundation than a gen AI landing page generator.

Who do they consider their target audience? Who needs a Mozilla metaverse, a Mozilla social Mastodon instance, a landing page generator?

Why can't they invest into something with a vision, something complex, a long-term hard tech? I don't know, re-write FF in Rust or something.

It's probably too late but Mozilla should have pushed on with FF OS or some kind of operating system strategy.

By now they could have had it on large market of cheap phones with an app store to give some revenue. The phones with USB C could be a basic PC, like they envisioned in design concepts back in 2010.

Add slick, basic desktop to growing market of raspberry pi like devices... they'd have integrated their browser everywhere.

The chance to offer a phone that is also a PC is something no companies want to offer. They can't risk cannibalizing their existing products.

Mozilla should have done it.

Anyone curious and don't know my reference, search for 'mozilla seabird concept pico projector'

It's perfect! This is what any AI is brilliant for, a tool for the perpetual present: the unimaginative, repetitive, average reproduction of what already exists, inoffensive and dull, the result a soulless shadow of "thing" that the machine has been trained on, for the easy pandering of countless philistines.

who's responsible for this shenanigan? how much does this person get paid? how does it correlate with the shrinking user-base? good lord... mozilla the group seems like a bunch of children who has too much money in a burning house. can't have more sympathy to you people.

It's look like they use next.js in the generated website but they don't let you at least download the source code for further modifications.

I just tried this out and published a site for "Fractional CTO Services" at: https://soloist.ai/amarkota

Would you hire me based on this AI-generated content? Disclosure: those aren't my reviews!

The fakeness of our future makes me want to leave anything tech and chase something more tangible in nature and made with my hands, not just my fingertips.

I feel this, but i think people will want to bring some tech with them - I think tech being put into specific specialized tools is becoming a thing for this reason. In music for instance, standalone Ableton Push, or modular synth with chips on modules to essentially add software effects to a hardware rack with no computer.

tech as tools, not time sinks, and out in the field.

Interesting, I could see selling this as a service to local businesses as well as upselling them on lead generation. I have done something similar for other niches in fact, it's a good way to get started and can even grow into a large profitable business.

Is it open source? It's coming from Mozilla but there's no link to the source code.

Well, it has been almost 7 years since Pocket, which appears at the bottom of this post, was bought for ~25–30 million USD and it was reported that it would be open sourced, and it's exactly as open source today as it was then. (I.e. not.)

You can't even download the generated site. So don't have hopes.

lol why is Mozilla suddenly releasing a bunch of “AI side hustle” products as of late

Speaking as a long-time FF user, Mozilla Foundation lacks vision and jumps on any new shiny tech that can get it a few headlines. Just in the last couple of years they invested into a Web3/metaverse effort, launched a Mastodon server, now offer gen AI features. None of these projects are ambitious, none are focused on developing complex fundamentals. Just basic products with a completely sub-par feature-set and no future.

As long as it doesn't distract them from delivering my favorite browser year after year, I don't mind if their side products are silly attempts to draw in funding for Mozilla. A mastodon server seems like something right up their alley. I imagine I can connect to it directly from Thunderbird now that I think about it lol

Wrong Mozilla.

Easier to ask who isn't putting out AI shovelware at the moment.

It's kind of sad that it only generates a single page and doesn't attempt to generate a bunch of pages and content like a normal website. I went through the whole wizard, provided it with enough content as possible, and it only generated about 100 words which is frankly pretty useless in todays SEO-fuelded internet.

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