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by stefan8r 1416 days ago
You should get off the sidelines! Post-Starsky I wanted to run away from HardTech / FrontierTech and just do "easy SaaS stuff."

I was deeply upset to realize I was too broken to do something that "easy." (still, really hard). As a mentor of mine, Boom's Blake Scholl, has said - it's sometimes easier to do "hard" things because it's easier to get the motivation to work on them.

Re:Launch HN - I think so? You can always do a Show HN, though!

1 comments

Well said!

I'm personally working on something hard in SaaS (automatic summary video after every Zoom/Teams SaaS demo).

I think truly hard things are in a lot of ways easier for truly inventive engineers because it's an execution challenge but you basically know for sure there's a market after.

Also hard things can be decomposed. If you solve one part (as you are doing) that's enough. So you can really niche down within something hard and still change the world

Ya video summary is nothing to sneeze at - I'll take my ML tasks as easy as determining if something is a person or a pixel /s

Completely agree on decomposing hard things.

There's always room for one more simultaneous startup ;)