Re:Ask HN: Will Bootstrapping See a Resurgence?
by keiferski on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:50AM
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I think one of the under-discussed consequences of generative AI will be that a single person / small team will be able to scale much more easily than before. It's very likely that a contemporary startup team of 3 people is equivalent to 10 or 20 people from a decade ago. Considering that a substantial portion of funding is typically aimed at hiring talent, this will definitely make bootstrapping more popular.
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Re:Ask HN: Will Bootstrapping See a Resurgence?
by ActorNightly on Monday October 02, 2023 @03:34AM
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The issue is that if LLMs are powerful enough to generate a product, then at certain point, companies are just going to buy hardware to run LLMs instead of paying the "middlemen" companies who used said LLMs to make a product to sell.
Re:Ask HN: Will Bootstrapping See a Resurgence?
by keiferski on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:31AM
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Unlikely. Most businesses already do something that is possible to do by customers without the middleman. Convenience and efficiency are usually more important.
Also, re-reading your comment, I don’t really mean using LLMs to generate a product. I mean to amplify the skillset of the business. “Bicycle for the mind” and so forth.