Never Product of
The Week
Current Job
I work as the only Marketer selling Laptops at a Startup. Before I joined they sold a Laptop and got Fcked by the factory. It has been 2 years and the products still have not been shipped to the customer.
This infuriates me. The Company has lost trust, Customer where robbed of 2 years of their lives in promise of a solution to a problem they had. What would happen if we could build a laptop ourselves in 3 hours instead of 3 years. I am not afraid to ask the stupid questions. P.S. Read “Obvious Adams” by Robert Updegraff. P.P.S. It’s only 50 pages!
AI Podcast
Some Posh guy, who I now think is a good guy, contacted me through linkedin about an AI podcast idea. I told him I would build it in 6 days instead of 6 months. I already had half the code from a previous project.
The product was built and we got no customers, why? We never spoke to any customers. We got closer than my previous attempts. We used our close network to improve the product.
When it came to paying there where crickets. If I had the chance to start any business, forget about production, and only speak to my potential customers, I would design the best product and they would never leave.
AI linkedin outreacher
If anyone reading this now has the idea of using AI to replace human interaction to sell products. I implore you to [REDACTED]. DO NOT. You will make soo many people hate you.
I built exactly that I spent 1 month scraping Companies house for 15 million companies. Collected emails and websites. I built a bot to personalise a message with AI. It was spam and I wasted 3 months doing this.
Leaving College
I left college to start a business. AI was popping at the time and I had a few previous attempts at making tech. “BookAI” an AI flowchart maker and then evolved to a Book Summariser.
The Idea was you could get all the knowledge from a 500 page book in 50 seconds and then a 3 page summary read. I spent 3 months building this and no time finding customers. I never spoke to anyone about whether they wanted the product or not. I lost 3 months here, the lesson? Build Fast, Fcking Fast if possible. Focus on Solving a real problem and you can do that by speaking to real people.
A physical product, in my eyes, is an object that solves a problem. (Phones, Cables, Soap). You make those, you know how to make the perfect Soap, I do not. But Soap needs a Soap box, or plastic wrapper. I do that.
Shipping requires a Box and a label. I can using robots make a cardboard box out of a sheet of cardabord and have robots fold it. I have my printer print out and stick the shipping label on the delivery.