[tuckerconnelly]

My counterpoint: if your product is simply a ChatGPT wrapper, you have no moat. Whatever is complicated enough and is actually making money, and you feel the need to test it and make sure it keeps running, that's your moat, and that's what you're going to want to hire human help for once you actually make some money.

[iamthirsty]

> My counterpoint: if your product is simply a ChatGPT wrapper, you have no moat.

A really low barrier to entry isn't always necessarily a good thing, as someone can usurp your business relatively quickly.

[johnwheeler]

Of course. But that's not what I'm talking about in this article. I'm talking about real solopreneurs building non-AI wrappers

[tuckerconnelly]

You don't see yourself hiring help for:

* Keeping things up and running

* Building the systems that the AI interfaces with

* Supporting any large contracts

?

In my experience, one enterprise contract with specific requirements basically requires you to hire a dev to support them.

[johnwheeler]

I am talking about getting started, now, in the age of ChatGPT.

You can hire if you need to, but the dynamics in work might shift that it's just a whole new ballgame. "enterprise contract" in ten years might be a meaningless term.

[hnhn34]

Would you recommend the solopreneur path for someone like me?

I’m a soon to be new grad with a year of experience and no luck getting another entry level job so far. It doesn’t help that I don’t have a drivers license or car, and just recovered from years of health issues. My life circumstances have really closed a lot of doors for me. I need flexibility and preferably WFH (this was a requirement for me before COVID, due to other health issues).

It’s risky, you lose benefits, and it’s probably a terrible idea for a mere junior according to all the advice I hear… Even in your article, your advice is to “find what you’re an expert at” but I’m not an expert of anything :( I’m very much a jack of all trades, master of none. But still, I’m willing to change that, and it feels like the ideal (perhaps the only viable) lifestyle for me. Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.

[kemiller]

I think the point is chatgpt as a development partner rather than the core product

[johnwheeler]

Exactly. Start using the "Upload file" feature instead of pasting code in the window and screwing up the UX. Game changer!