justiceforsaas
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Comment · 4 months ago
Do you have an in-between step when you go from planning to execution? Eg. have a PLAN.md file you then ask the execution model to implement.
Comment · 4 months ago
Honestly the code gen part has been “good enough” for a while now, especially with models like Opus. The broader point this post is making is that newer SOTA models are improving at the "planning layer", and this is usually the the part a senior developer would usually handle (identifying edge cases, thinking ahead, thinking about tradeoffs, etc.)
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you suggesting these AI agents can write code 24/7 without a single error or getting stuck? In my experience (and I think plenty of others would confirm this), you're lucky if they can run smoothly for even 5 minutes without hitting some kind of problem that needs human intervention.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's also what I thought. Instead of using fire extinguishers, FB/Apple/Google are adding more gasoline to the fire.
This is going to radicalize people (especially conspiracy theorists) who now think have actual, indisputable "proof" these companies are there to get them.
Comment · 5 years ago
Facebook is probably a bad acquisition channel for many SaaS businesses, especially after this week news on FB managers trashing their own ad targeting [1]. I do a little project where I analyze founder interviews, trying to discover which acquisition channels consistently work for founders [2] and around 90% of founders who mentioned FB as an acquisition channel working for them, also mentioned at least 2-3 more major channels (like AdWords, partnerships, SEO, etc.) [3]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25529479
[2] https://www.firstpayingusers.com
[3] The only exception were e-commerce companies, they were much more likely to rely solely on FB vs. SaaS Companies
Comment · 6 years ago
> We opened the floodgates. We shared the project on Twitter and Instagram, posted to HN and wrote a medium post. But, try as we might, no one was signing up.
Later in the post:
> Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in $ELITELANG instead. Our startup could have been a unicorn.
Although this is satire, it's something a lot of funded startups do. They think they've solved user acquisition by getting investors money (hey, let's throw a couple thousands at Google/FB Ads, although there are 15+ viable acquisition channels we could try [1]), and spend time on building things in their own bubble.
Also, the launch mention is pretty accurate:
> We launched v2 of our product with a splash.
Wonder if many startups would have better results if flipped the switch and treated product creation as a "launch" (a bunch of big sprints with a deadline) and user acquisition as something they do steadily, over a period of time.
[1] https://zerotousers.substack.com/p/15-acquisition-channels-i...