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by sumit_psp 207 days ago
Even in the minimal example there are way more variables than it first seems.

1. How many shirts do we order? 2. When is it worth moving on to the next trend? 3. How should we handle shipping? Do we market globally or locally?

Even the smallest business require a lot of balancing of priorities and planning for the long run with uncertain returns
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devincintron 207 days ago
True

What's like the most minimally scoped business someone could operate entirely digitally though? Is it the drop ship crap? Or maybe like a web game w/ ad revenue?

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WellingtonWells 207 days ago
Webgame with ad rev might work -- I was thinking some kind of churned out self-publishing of children's books? Though I'm not sure if you'd actually turn a profit. Whatever it was, it'd definitely have to be heavily engineered though -- custom tools, and basically a glorified flow chart.
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devincintron 206 days ago
Okay so yeah this interests me because it seems so plausible that the right set of of LMs w/ custom tools surely could turn a profit on self-publishing of children's e-books.

Like how could that NOT be the case?

I feel like any sufficiently variable sparse business w/ minimal tool call needs it'd have to be the case that you can turn on a model and get something going.

t-shirt drop ship, children e-books, webgame ad-rev, something of this sort

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