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Re:Claude for Small Business by operatingthetan on Thursday May 14, 2026 @02:53AM (#48131971)
>I am building a product in that space :)

I don't know anyone not building a product in that space

Re:Claude for Small Business by lanyard-textile on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:46AM (#48132301)
I think everyone is making bespoke versions of what they think people want. It all feels gimmicky and dev oriented.

I have a vision for what will be the next household ChatGPT:

1. An actually frictionless way of keeping the human in the loop. My product is primarily targeting that: Your tools should feel like an extension of you, not replacing you.

2. Juggling work. I feel like what I'm making here is the secret sauce, so keeping a hush on it :)

3. Keeping all your work in one place. Drawing, sketching, developing, emailing, planning, writing; there is no reason to depend on other apps if you have one place that does it all, and it's the best offering among them.

Edit with some follow up thoughts -- I think what I'm trying to make is best summarized as claude code for non-developers (that's what I put in my YC application), but I think what I'm trying to make doesn't quite even have a developer equivalent.

There's not an environment you can go into right now and say "after this builds every single time, deploy to this machine" and it actually seamlessly does that. The tech is there but making it a whole Factorio-esque operation is still very manual -- and that's what I'm solving.

Re:Claude for Small Business by lukan on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:56AM (#48132368)
"I feel like what I'm making here is the secret sauce"

Good for your feelings, but I feel the same for my work ..

The main problem is still, agents are not reliable and what normal (and dev) people really want, is to have them reliable. Or well, tools to manage unreliable agents in a more clear way.

Re:Claude for Small Business by lanyard-textile on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:01AM (#48132397)
;) Then I think I have the trillion dollar idea. We'll see. Good luck to you.
Re:Claude for Small Business by lukan on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:21AM (#48132551)
Same to you.

(It is a big market I think)

Re:Claude for Small Business by swkwk on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:14AM (#48133820)
This is not a vision…. I’m convinced most of you on here are delusional and have no conception of a great product.
Re:Claude for Small Business by lanyard-textile on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:11PM (#48139856)
:) Or you're not the audience.

Or, miscommunication.

Re:Claude for Small Business by lanyard-textile on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:23PM (#48139997)
An additional comment -- I'm perplexed by the amount of pushback in this thread. You expect a bit, but delusional?

You don't normally get raked over the coals for having an idea you're still carving out -- an idea that's validated in production, even.

Re:Claude for Small Business by endofreach on Thursday May 14, 2026 @02:56AM (#48131997)
So, what are you building in that space?