Adana Marukhyan

At what point does a product become ready to talk to investors?

When you have users?
Revenue?
A clear business model?
A certain number of people using it?

Especially for solo or small-team makers, it feels twice as hard to reach all of these points alone - while continuing to build the product without income and bootstrapping everything.

At some point, it starts to feel like an infinite loop:

There s a growing tendency to flag AI-generated text. There s even a term for low-quality AI-generated content - AI slop.

And honestly, I understand why.

Communication should feel real. If every comment, post, or message is generated by AI, the picture becomes blurry.

But then I have a question.

A year and half ago, my wife told me she wished there was more time in a day. Taking inventory of what she did that day, she did spend a lot of time scrolling on social media, whats app, and even the photos app.

I told her about Apple screen time which she set up but it is very easy to ignore app limits with the tap of a button. I was no better as I had many things I wanted to accomplish but spent tons of time on chess.com and youtube.