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Two related questions to ask yourself as an early founder:

1. If my company were to fail, why would it have happened? 2. What would have to be true in order for the company to succeed?

(From Rob Fitzpatrick's "The Mom Test")

Agree. I have a Quest 2, and two friends have since purchased them after trying mine out. If potential customers could just demo the damn thing, many of them would convert into sales. There is very much a "wow factor" after trying it out, even if many users do eventually get bored.

I don't know if it's "simple", but there is a well established corpus of knowledge, as taught by Y Combinator and others. He describes a fairly standard path.

First he has domain experience (teaching French and English in Korea). This experience exposes him to a problem (students know grammar but can't speak). He then explores solutions to this problem. First with a blog and a book (sells enough to "cover the bills"). Then he iterates to an interactive book (which now was "selling well"), and then finally moves on to build the fully fledged webapp. And with that, out of the 5 billion internet users, he can convince 800 of them to hand over their cash.

Of course the story is probably streamlined and leaves out the dead ends. You can only connect the dots in retrospect, as Steve Jobs said.

Reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

Why are people so determined to 'debunk' it? Why not try to work with it and within its limitations?

If you've failed to pre-arrange, you could always just ask something personal.

"Sorry Sally I know you've been kidnapped, but before we continue, what was the name of our first dog?"

If you really wanted to optimise, you would collect many samples of two humans talking to each other in a Turing test environment, then fine-tune GPT on the data.

OP was under no obligation to build it in the first place. Arguably the alternative to a $10 app is no app at all.

Flashpoint has a nice UI and I managed to find many old favorites.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

See also masking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masking_(personality)

There are some on itch.io

https://drwhut.itch.io/tabletop-club

https://quantum.country/ teaches quantum computing as essays with embedded flashcards, as a new "mnemonic medium". I wonder if there is a market for context plus flashcards. What if books came with their own spaced repetition decks?

Plenty of games get procedural generation right, from NetHack, to Spelunky, to Minecraft. No Man's Sky might just be a bad game.

In that case (because you asked for recommendations) you might enjoy this post by Tim Urban that I found inspiring, that is about a similar idea.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-s...

What do you mean by "PC"? I'm guessing Player character, as in someone who makes deliberate decisions.

>In line with upcoming regulations, like the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), we will also be introducing a new age verification step over the next few months. As part of this process some European users may be asked to provide additional proof of age when attempting to watch mature content.

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-c...

You might be interested in Why Books Don't Work by Andy Matuschak

https://andymatuschak.org/books/

I hope not! Better put your efforts into creating value rather than winning zero-sum scams.

Zero deaths are ideal, but the point is that self driving cars don't have to clear a very high bar. The human driver alternative doesn't do very well, as outlined in your link.

Being purposely misleading then penalising those who are misled doesn't seem like a good hiring strategy, but then again, I've never tried to hire someone.