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by welzel 934 days ago
Finding a OOS business model is non-trivial.

Maybe you should talk to https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper to get some inspiration?

People are paying for convenience.

as for the technology itself: the B2B market is super-super early and i understand everybody is in goldrush mode, however 98% of all startups will not survive the next 3-5 years.

From the demand site: Companies are still sleeping, you can see very very very few proof of concept implementation, but basically nothing goes to production.

The rate of innovation is extremely high with LLM, making it a bad investment for a company.

My idea: OSS everything, become an expert in the field, learn how to sell, survive from consulting services. Don´t build products, do paid projects instead.

Focus all your energy to understand customer needs and building your target audience.

Be ready when the time is right to build a startup around LLM.

Don´t waste time building technology, develop your business instead.

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Hmm interesting take on things - I just thought consulting would fall into the trap of Dunbar's number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number - plus consulting requires more effort so given 24 hours in a day, you can only grow so much.

It sounds like consultants will become freelancers in the future - but LLMs itself might take over the consultant's job as well.

But on that note - that's why with my bro, we decided Unsloth was out 1st product release - we're going to be releasing tonnes of new other products! (Coincidentally a data science consultant as well!)