Violet Amelia

While I was starting distribution of my first saas, one thing which I overestimated was that the sales would happen very quickly as the product I made was good enough for it. Turns out, the product did not even had a market fit. I also ran ads with a very small budget and thought it will easily be gained within a few days, and I was very wrong here.

AI also does the same thing. If you ask it to expect some numbers based on what people experience for your saas when you distribute with some method X, it will show some very aspirational numbers. But, when ask it to be honest or practical or brutally honest for the same, it's answer changes (in some cases, significantly).

I asked an AI assistant to review a repo before shipping it.

It came back with a clean report, a confident tone, and a long list of passes. Then I checked one of the lines it cited.

The line said something else. The mistake itself didn't bother me that much. What bothered me was that there was no shape in the output for "I don't know."

Everything was either a problem or a pass. And the passes were doing a lot of unearned work.

Getting close to launching mine and honestly more nervous about launching than the product. What's something you'd tell a first timer to avoid? And on the flip side, what's something that worked way better than you expected going in?

Curious to hear how it went for you.