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Comment by fsloth

14 hours ago

"Founding cannot be a commodity. If it is, you have no moat or point, meaning you instantly collapse again, because you are an interchangeable commodity."

IMHO you still need to find the product and PMF

There are bunch of books startup world recommends which sort of all start from the principle of product, users, traction.

This is sort of scaffolding around that. It's not entirely insane to try to formalize this process - there already are books that do this (Bill Aulet, Disciplined entrepreneurship).

"nor does it make sense for society to have people founding businesses at a scale"

Maybe not at scale of moving lawns but I'm pretty sure the world is full of nichces that still lack specific software offering or where options of software offerings are limited.

This is like "Uber for logging" or "time reservation system for cat dentists" level of "take existing product category and apply to a domain you know".

So not every cat dentist needs to found a cat dentist time reservation app but I'm sure there are niches withing niches with business opportunities awaiting.

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glaslong  2 hours ago

Yesssss. think there is a wealth of opportunity here in strictly non-scalable, probably even strictly non-profitable ways.

Where "founder" paints exactly the opposite image of what it really does unlock: everyone being able to build or tweak a little app they need; tailored just for their use cases.

A market size of a few people, a dozen, or a hundred, who can now get software that exactly services their niche. Something you'd never ever convince someone to build or maintain for you beyond the "smart niece/nephew" charity.

Could be a website for your local soccer league, a Bible reader with different font and bookmark treatment, a chart of your home canning cellar where you can send some jam to your friends and they send you kimchi.

There are probably nigh infinite tiny microcosms of unserved automation and functionality need like this. Where you can make the computer do what YOU need, not what a minimum of thousands-millions of other people mutually needed in the least common denominator.

There might even be a few larger needs in there we've missed, because they never got the chance.