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Chatbots were just a worse way to fill out a form. NFTs we’re…where to even begin.
But I’ve already used GPT to write thank you note and create a blog post, and I’ve used midjourney to create stock photos.
“Trads”. Young people with super traditional values doing exactly the opposite of most of what you just listed.
No one would seriously suggest the trendiest most mainstream supported or glorified lifestyles (van life, queerness, gig work) are counter culture…that IS the culture; there’s very little cultural risk in living those glorified identities.
But say you’re an 18 year old with radically traditional values…that’s counter cultural now.
Not supporting either direction. Just observing.
Feels like if we didn’t have to invent new batteries but instead just turned excess solar and wind into carbon neutral gas “batteries” that would be a win.
It is readily falsifiable (the police talked of her like a day after the shooting and decided she is just a crank spouting off on Facebook…the end), it has absolutely no merit, zero.
It was repeated/suggested/amplified WAY early with zero evidence by notable LGBTQ twitter personalities because it fit a narrative in THEIR head. Then it became THE narrative…
And now despite absolutely no connection whatsoever you see it weeks later in adjacent news stories and even here on HN.
As fascinating as it is terrible.
But that market is seafood supply chain compliance, and I guarantee you no influencer gives a flying fuck about it or even knows it exists. It’s gross, it’s not sexy, the people working in it are absolutely not on this website.
If you get out of the echo chamber, there are loads of places that need help from software, can pay for it, but have no idea how to create it themselves.
I followed roughly this path until I was in my late 30s. Now have a startup that is growing because we put in essentially 5 years of groundwork, while working full time day jobs, building product in an industry that isn’t sexy, being “lucky” (patient/observant) enough to ride a new federal regulation, having go throw away an entire product after 2 years and starting a new product in the same space/customers, showing customers we were in it for the long haul FOR THEM, with a well rounded seasoned founding team, business model first, taking the right amount of investment from the right investors at the right time.
In that way I think entrepreneurship IS actually a lifestyle, but the behaviors are not what OP alludes to. The lifestyle is falling in love with a problem or a type of customer or both and just seeing what you can do to help while building a business along the way…SUSTAINABLY. If your version of lifestyle is somehow BEING caught up in acting a certain way based on influence (I have no idea what an indie hacker is), that seems destined for failure.
TLDR. Go live your life, get a normal job to build security, don’t try and start a company at all, wait for a problem/opportunity to find you.
If you’re in a high uncertainty environment with loads of market risk, by all means Agile away.
But if you’re designing and developing something fairly well understood… something more oriented towards a better understanding up front with bigger customer delivery increments is completely fine.
I’ll wait for some actual investigation before jumping to conclusions.
An incredibly novel infectious disease that kills older people at an intensely meaningful rate is clearly the driver here.
How?
Meta lost 11 billion building second life, not because they can’t monetize fb/ ig etc.
Twitter fired half its staff because their new god king wanted to run a different company with lower costs and different standards and product direction, not because advertising performance meaningfully changed.
- Don't start a company to start a company. You will be miserable. Find a space you like and start to explore it for fun (at first).
- DO NOT quit your day job. Nights and weekends to start. Have your partner pick up more kid/life duty if they is can. Quit when it hurts or when the path of your business lowers the risk sufficiently.
- Focus relentlessly on business model fit and real customer problems. B2B is fertile territory. Niche ignored industries with high painkiller need (vs vitamin) are fertile territory.
- Work with a team. Work with a team with no kids. Probably the most important part. :)
- Treat the work time a normal part of your life (like going camping or exercising)
- Ignore all hustle porn start-up mythology nonsense. Build the business around how you want to work that still achieves your goals.
- Its never easy, but its not impossible.
If you’re mad at anyone, walk down to city hall and tell them to build more housing.
That seems like it will be a popular political move, you should tell them.