I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

by theo_championon 6/12/2023, 7:30 PMwith 40 comments

by janalsncmon 6/12/2023, 11:50 PM

I’m more interested in the tech behind these products. I have a dozen or so “apps” which amount to a python script or localhost site, but deploying them online has been a complete pain in the ass. I will spend ~8 hours perfecting a python script only to spend the next weekend figuring out how to deploy it behind a url. It’s extremely frustrating.

Maybe it’s because I’m not an AWS expert anymore but frankly I don’t want to be. I don’t care. I want to spend my time figuring out the business logic of the app, not tuning obscure IAM configurations so that one part of my app can talk to another.

What I want: take my flask app or node app and my frontend files and run it from a temp url. Include some hosted db. If everything looks good, sell me a domain name. Bonus points if this can be done from terminal like surge.sh can for frontends. And let me cap my monthly spend.

I noticed that one of the apps uses Netlify, are there better options or is that generally considered the best?

by hckson 6/12/2023, 10:37 PM

These are not startups, most aren’t even products.

by stolenmerchon 6/12/2023, 11:27 PM

I hate to nitpick, but when the https://chunk.run/ start button is typoed "Strat Now", I have to wonder how many corners were cut to launch 9 startups in a year.

by matteorasoon 6/12/2023, 11:16 PM

I'm struggling to think of a way that GitHunt service can be used in a way that isn't malicious. I say that because a common grey market is to sell email addresses to spammers, and that's the only target audience I can see using it. Not trying to be a dick, just worried that this service can be harmful for a lot of people.

by nemothekidon 6/12/2023, 10:20 PM

This is an idea I've been toying around with; this hard part is just coming up with and/or validating ideas. On top of just cranking things out to keep you sharp, I particularly enjoy just being in contact of people in different industries.

by cointimeon 6/13/2023, 12:18 AM

How can you attract users when most of these products are not available for trial?

by thdespouon 6/12/2023, 9:31 PM

Are those products or just individual features wrapped within a domain name?

by poomeron 6/13/2023, 12:02 AM

You could make a nice living covertly selling the AI "startups" to wealthy folk who just want bragging rights about being founders.

by teetertateron 6/12/2023, 11:07 PM

And how'd it go? :)

by uLogMichealon 6/12/2023, 8:02 PM

This is definitely a entrepreneurial model that will work in the coming years. Establish a bunch of base businesses / MVPs, document them well, schedule recurring conversations with your AI to sync about the topic aka "conversational journaling/logging", then let all the agents get to work based on the new context provided.

by slimebot80on 6/13/2023, 1:34 AM

@theo_champion nice list, but would love to see a write-up on your journey!

by congkingon 6/13/2023, 1:43 PM

You can use dynamite to edit the "strat now" from chunk

by i_like_pie1on 6/13/2023, 4:39 AM

congrats on building/taking shows

1/ what were/are your goals with the projects? 2/ what are some of the biggest lessons?

would love to hear your take on 1/2 if open to sharing

by subhashpon 6/13/2023, 3:14 AM

Amazing achievement!