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We’re a startup, so currently we don’t really have any fixed spend targets or limits as such.

If you look at how our AI budget has changed, a good example is when we were looking to hire a part-time motion designer. We were actively hiring for the role, but then we started seeing videos of Opus 5.5 creating these crazy videos, and we suddenly decided to stop hiring for that position.

What ended up happening was that our entire team of 14 people started making these 1–1.5 minute videos themselves. Within a couple of days, our two Claude subscriptions were completely maxed out and exhausted in under 2 days, even though they were supposed to last us an entire week.

So I think that gives you a pretty good sense of how quickly our AI usage—and consequently our AI spend—can change.

Why and how ????!!!

Why not ?

I think if you don’t have a strong personal network or a high-value client who could potentially acquire the business, the best approach is to work with a broker. They already have relationships with the right set of people you’d want to partner with or sell to, and I think it’s completely reasonable to pay them a small percentage of the sale.

Especially if you’re selling a business for under $1M, I’d consider this route. You could also look for companies that are actively trying to expand into new markets or diversify their product portfolio, as there could be a natural fit.

In your case, though, the context is a little different. In our case, the acquiring company was preparing to go public and wanted to diversify its product portfolio, so they acquired us. It was pretty straightforward.

Ultimately, it depends a lot on the context and the kind of buyer you’re looking for.

haha, so true!

It’s honestly insane to see how much money these companies are burning—and how much they’re projecting to burn over the next 5-7 years.

And yet, the valuations are still staggering, valued at over $1 trillion while collectively burning close to a quarter trillion dollars in the coming years.

I think you 100% need a technical co-founder at some point.

I think this is the part that gets missed when people say you don’t need a technical co-founder anymore because of Claude Code. I agree to an extent. For building V1? Sure, you probably don’t need one. Even for getting your first 20–30 customers, you might be able to get pretty far without one.

But eventually, there’s a point where you genuinely need someone technical, and I think that point depends heavily on the industry you’re building in.

I work in the attribution space, and there’s just no way I believe Claude can build and maintain an attribution platform as reliably as a strong human engineer can. Once you’re dealing with 5, 10, 15 different systems all interacting with each other — Meta, Google, attribution, postbacks, APIs, SDKs, etc., things get complicated very quickly.

AI coding agents are insanely good at building things, but when you have to maintain the intersection of a bunch of systems reliably over a long period of time, I still think you need a really strong technical person who understands what’s happening underneath it all.

That’s where I think a technical co-founder becomes really important.

Charge based on the outcomem-for example, per qualified lead generated, percentage of revenue, or another measurable business result.

Till today, I was doing the complete opposite of what the article suggests. Definitely going to try this approach out, pretty helpful.

I have a specific ChatGPT chat that rewrites my posts really well every time; I usually just give it a rough draft and let it clean things up. But it was pretty interesting to realize how good these LLMs are at actually finding mistakes rather than just rewriting things. The point about not letting the model influence your voice was also very, very relevant.

This is pretty useful, actually. I’ve been using it for the past 2–3 days, and I didn’t find it through YC Hacker News but through some other channel. It’s great to see that so many other people are already using it and praising it—congrats on that!

One of the most useful use cases for me, especially since I work in GTM, is keeping track of new ways to get replies from prospects, whether through cold outbound or things like SEO/GEO optimization. I read at least 2-3 articles a day on this, and it genuinely helps me figure out which ideas are worth trying because I can now keep track of everything I’ve read.

I have no comments on the digital right issues but probably one of the best games ever.

Pretty interesting. I think one thing we’ve been facing recently is the need for AI chat to help users navigate the actual product, not just the website.

Customers often know the outcome they want to achieve, but have no idea what steps they need to take to get there. For example, they might want to launch a campaign, but don’t know where to start or what they need to configure.

Having something like an AI assistant that understands the product and guides them through every step of the process could be really helpful. It could essentially take the user from the outcome they want to achieve and walk them through the entire workflow.