Comment by NewUser76312
Comment by NewUser76312 8 days ago
The hard work and dedication are commendable for sure. Are you full time on this, or is it passive income at this point?
I'm sure many people will have positive things to say. So, to keep the conversation interesting let me make some counterpoints and questions, please don't take it the wrong way, I think it's great whenever somebody upstarts and independent project and gets paid for it.
- What's the growth curve look like, and the cost to acquire new customers?
- I'd worry about getting stuck working on things that hit local maximums. Will it hit $10k? That's still less than a reasonable dev job where you probably don't have to work as hard. The current amount is akin to minimum wage I think.
- Can you make it passive/part-time? In case it doesn't scale the way you envision.
- Are you actually building and providing a novel tech solution, or is it something that chatgpt or perplexity will do good enough for free in a few months? Not to be a downer, but as someone in your potential target audience, I see what's going on with your site and would personally just set up my own prompt chain to get 95% of the value on my own with other AI tools.
Yes, doing it full-time. Cost to acquire new customers has been $0, we're growing organically and through content marketing.
I believe we could hit $10k just repeating what we're doing now. But we're currently looking at where to best spend our earnings in order to scale faster.
I get the AI wrapper objection, but Chatgpt or other LLMs can't do what Buildpad does. For example, when verifying demand for your solution (this is one of the phases users go through) Buildpad will generate and host a "research page" for you that will help with taking in feedback from your target audience and make the whole validation process a lot easier.
I appreciate your perspective and I'd be lying if I said that what we're doing isn't a risk. But I personally get so much enjoyment out of building my own product and having users that appreciate it, that all the hard work makes it worth it. And the idea that we can make it into something huge is very motivating too. For me, it's a risk well worth taking.