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Every day, indie hackers on Twitter were building their products and sharing about it. Everyone was happy. But then, one day, OpenAI launched a chat bot and everything changed. Everyone was leaving their thing behind to build with AI ... but I didn't. Why not? ...Permalink On twitter.com
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AI is all the hype. @damengchen will hit $1M revenue soon. His PDF.ai is growing like crazy. SiteGPT is making @pbteja1998 into Scrooge McDuck as I'm writing. Even @daniel_nguyenx is only talking about BoltAI now. Stagetimer's growth is slow, compared.Permalink On twitter.com
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So what was holding me back? The FOMO was overwhelming. I knew, sooner or later, I would give in. So I made a plan. I forced myself to only observe for a while.Permalink On twitter.com
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At first, products were simple shells around AI engines. photoai.com a wrapper for SD. copy.ai a wrapper for GPT-3. The market was immediately saturated and then overtaken by the engines themselves.Permalink On twitter.com
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Then the big brands launched their plugins. Notion, Intercom, Gmail, etc. So this was off the table too. But the best products aren't ChatGPT wrappers or big innovations. The best ideas are small innovations for already great products. So this is what I am going to do.Permalink On twitter.com
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I'm going to build a copy of knowledgebase.com Yes, you heard that right. I'm going to copy another product! Three reasons: 1. They already validated it 2. I can get "inspired" by their marketing copy and keywords 3. The market is big enoughOn twitter.com
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I talked it through with @lizmhermann and she is all in. We'll build the same features but position it different. We'll build the landing page first and then the product. We're going to share the journey here, so put us on your Twitter list. 😄 It's gonna be great!Permalink On twitter.com