... 40Cr of battery storage. When I had to plan our first roundtable, I didn't start with venue and snacks. I started like a thesis. What's the hypothesis? Who's the ICP? What do we want to learn vs. sell? When outreach wasn't working, I didn't write punchier copy. I treated it like fieldwork. I realised marketing is just research with a deadline. You form a hypothesis, test it with real humans, and kill your ego fast ... ... wrong. I went from being scared of GTM to realizing I'd been training for it for 4 years. And you know what has helped me the most? Products. Products that make my life easier. With the advent

... 40Cr of battery storage. When I had to plan our first roundtable, I didn't start with venue and snacks. I started like a thesis. What's the hypothesis? Who's the ICP? What do we want to learn vs. sell? When outreach wasn't working, I didn't write punchier copy. I treated it like fieldwork. I realised marketing is just research with a deadline. You form a hypothesis, test it with real humans, and kill your ego fast ... ... wrong. I went from being scared of GTM to realizing I'd been training for it for 4 years. And you know what has helped me the most? Products. Products that make my life easier. With the advent

... doesn't trust it 100%). The point is I also see fewer junior positions in companies' career search engines. Have you given up on entry-level positions too? How do you perceive the changing job market after the advent and adoption of AI? Comment from Alicia S(@a_s71): @adana  I agree with you Adana on the 'easier to jump to senior in one big step'. I think a junior who can use AI and other tools extremely well ... ... incredibly useful. Spotting digital innovations and new tools is something I see as often being overlooked in the junior vs

... 40Cr of battery storage. When I had to plan our first roundtable, I didn't start with venue and snacks. I started like a thesis. What's the hypothesis? Who's the ICP? What do we want to learn vs. sell? When outreach wasn't working, I didn't write punchier copy. I treated it like fieldwork. I realised marketing is just research with a deadline. You form a hypothesis, test it with real humans, and kill your ego fast ... ... wrong. I went from being scared of GTM to realizing I'd been training for it for 4 years. And you know what has helped me the most? Products . Products that make my life easier. With the advent

... restaurants, DMV's, ad nauseam. Depending on circumstances, you may be able to deduct placeholder fees as they may be work related venues/projects. When I was still working, I had to stall personal issues until nights/weekends/holidays, long before the advent of doppelg ngers, AI, robots, web based solutions, etc. Although more hectic now, there are plenty of viable "assistants" @ your vital disposals. Comment from Raj Nagulapalle(@rnagulapalle): I have behavioral focus time tool that handles based on my own signals daily ... ... that matters most here is treating energy as the resource worth managing, more than time itself. 4 open hours mean nothing if you're depleted, and ninety focused minutes can outperform a whole scattered day. Noticing your own sharp versus

... number of feature improvements to outweigh the problems a mountain of debt will create. I guess this is the closest to the honest trade-off great product and tech divisions have done for many years before the advent of coding agents. Focus on reliability and observability. Not all tech-debt is equal but we are keeping a close eye on the most critical paths with additional infra to monitor for that. What tradeoffs are you making, and what's working ... ... Fair point and yes, I believe continuous refactoring tilts the equation here. Same can be said about error resolution. As long as instrumentation is in place to catch issues quickly one could say the trade-off of moving fast vs

... person, it might be literally $0; for another, it might be $3k/mo till break-even. Break-even on another hand depends on the nature of business + market (whether you need to scale adoption vs start charging right away) So it depends on geo + situation + (most importantly) the nature of the startup. Comment from Spencer Miller(@spencer_miller_dev): I've spent roughly $500 on my startup thus far, and most of that comes from spend on company formation and various ... ... become more expensive than the MVP itself. However, I would say fundraising at VC does help a lot. Based on my friend who currently works at 1752vc, they invest up to $3.5M. Comment from Ray(@rdychkstudios): With the advent

... pages backed by proof. Built on Vercel, launching waitlist-first to validate the core loop with early users and partners. Comment from Andrei Kapytau(@lonlilokli): Building Uspamin https://www.uspamin.org/ on Next.js 16 / Vercel / Supabase. 13 personalised experience types - quizzes, advent calendars, puzzles, memory matches, story scrolls - each shared as one plain URL. Zero auth, access is just a token in the link. No app for the recipient, no signup for the creator, no ads. Sharing love is free, forever ... ... tell you who, not the client. The tired business owner. I was over chasing info from teams, drawn out projects, disconnected feedbacks, no way of seeing whom was working on each projects and how much is was costing vs

... fact, as recently as two years ago), early-stage startups needed three things to get into investor conversations: a strong narrative, a solid team, and a prototype. Now, in most software categories, that s no longer enough. The advent of AI has shifted investors attention to actual metrics. Yes, even at the pre -seed level, investors don t care so much about promise as they do about realized potential. They want monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and growth rate. This could ...

... With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands." I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle. I certainly wouldn't trust something to the extent of providing: access to personal finances and operations (maybe just setting aside an amount I'm willing to lose) sensitive health and biometric information (can be easily misused) confidential communication with ... ... they face in their day to day. Comment from Henrik Pedersen(@henrikpedersen): @busmark_w_nika  Exactly passive vs

... have been a marketing professional for 25 years and have done a bit of everything. I have launched many products throughout my career, and with the advent of AI and Vibecoding, I feel a breath of fresh air to quickly test ideas. We are living in a wonderful time ...

... month that officially closes the launch chapter of the year, so you still have a last chance to come up with something that will get attention. Such December classics are definitely products with these narratives: Wrap-ups Advent Calendars Most searched topics Prognosis for the coming year Productivity and health apps (ready for New Year's resolutions) Do you have in mind any product that is appropriate to come up with in December? Or do you have in mind ... ... manually type that you agree. But I totally understand your pain! I once deleted my own drive using another tool on the market and then spent the whole evening reinstalling everything Comment from Rob James(@r221): Wait, people create advent

... biswas FYI Comment from Eric Buckley(@eric_buckley): We work with b2b tech marketers (software dev, enterprise SaaS, etc.) and always see the vast majority of demand budgets automatically allocated to paid ads. As SEO is failing with the advent of AI SEO/GEO/LLM SEO/AEO, do you see paid's vice grip over budgets finally starting to loosen up? Comment from Dheeraj(@dheerajdotexe): Hey @justisio , appreciate you doing this AMA! I've got much more of a general question ...

... community! I m prototyping a new platform that curates portfolios of complete apps think Behance for apps and connects individual creators with companies or individuals seeking to commission projects. With the advent of powerful no-code tools and AI-driven prototyping, solo developers can now ship end-to-end products without large teams. This could evolve into developer management agencies that represent solo creators, manage client engagements, and handle branding and contracts similar to Toptal or Andela but focused ...

... enable users to connect with others near them and attend/host events. Are you also building a product that doesn't have an AI component? How has it been? Has the available funding decreased for "unsexy" ideas since the advent of AI? Comment from Sean Hwang(@seanphwang): @rodrigo_soviero  Refreshing to hear that! If we think of it as a hype cycle, perhaps the AI exhaustion phase is right around the corner.. until next time Comment from Sean Hwang ...

... stop giant corporations from breaking the law. It's just going to make it easier for them to get away with it or take advantage of consumers and their data. I'd much rather live somewhere with ethical companies versus the opposite. A better solution could be to regulate these large corps once they reach increasingly larger stages, and loosen regulations for smaller companies allowing for easier entry (which I believe you mention), along with establishing VCs or incubators ... ... party punch. The EU doesn't include Switzerland (where I live) or the UK (which are certainly Europe too) and it represents a certain (failed imo) philosophical approach to European coherence to which you're proposing an alternative

... been what TikTok is today. Comment from Nick Anisimov(@nickanisimov): VR. I was involved in virtual reality for six years, I had a profitable business developing virtual reality software, but the market died on its own after the advent of artificial intelligence. At the same time, the use of VR goes far beyond entertainment, especially for education and medicine. But the market is just microscopic. Unfortunately, the VR hardware market is also dead. It's very ...

... anything to simply sell. Advantages Every Section of Peoples since it s the excellent platform to sell off your old items, it makes way for less privileged people to experience luxurious items at an affordable price. After the advent of free classified websites, the distribution of old items has come to be easier than ever. It helps those who are looking for selling off their old items as well as helps those who are searching out buying items ...

... tech builders are the minority in the tech world, but with the advent of no-code tools, the long-term dream of democratizing building is becoming real. So what are you building? Let's support the no-code builders! Comment from Mayank Mishra(@mishra_mayank): @janinah awesome Janinah! Comment from Mayank Mishra(@mishra_mayank): @anil_meena21 exciting! Good luck Comment from Mayank Mishra(@mishra_mayank): @maxwellcdavis haha you can pick it up yourself Maxwell ;) Comment from Mayank Mishra(@mishra_mayank ...

... work is harder than ever to come by. Prior to coming to Hollywood I did earn a degree in computer systems engineering in 1989. I've dabbled with coding over the decades, but never professionally. But recently with the advent of agentic IDEs I've been able to complete two projects of roughly 50K lines each, using fully typed PHP backend (PHPStan level 8 across the codebase from first line) and frontend using TypeScript with matching contracts ...