I get random ideas all the time. I’ve always thought about creating informative and/or fictional books. I started thinking about using AI to do it for me after I just give it the topics and exporting them as PDFs specifically to sell online
Nice! I just had this same idea yesterday! I’ll be following along, congrats on the launch!
Thanks! What made you think about this idea?
I get random ideas all the time. I’ve always thought about creating informative and/or fictional books. I started thinking about using AI to do it for me after I just give it the topics and exporting them as PDFs specifically to sell online
No instant gratification issues, I’ve built other businesses just not tech stuff. Like everything else, just want to get to it and not waste time on things that can be outsourced quicker. Been using ChatGPT, YT and actively learning coding. Just looking to fast lane it all like I have with everything else
I think your mind is already made up in that you want to immediately hire contractors because you think it'll save you time. In the short term, sure, they might be able to churn out a landing page quick - in the long term however, you're shooting yourself in the foot. It's going to be expensive to hire a good developer unless you happen to find someone that doesn't know what they're worth. Anyone with experience will charge $200+ per hour, and if you hire a newbie for cheap you risk ending up with spaghetti code that will be impossible to understand or work on. This will cost you more money later as a competent developer will have to rewrite whatever was written.
There are plenty of better options to get started fast that won't lead to unnecessary throwaway work or wasted money:
- DIY no code landing page builders like Carrd. You can just hook up a Stripe button to a form and ask people to use it. That's what I do for my MVPs even as an experienced developer.
- Depending on the idea you might not even need a landing page, just create a stripe checkout link and send it to people directly
- Learn to build a landing page with any CSS framework like Tailwind, Bootstrap, etc: it doesn't take that much time especially with chatgpt involved and as a bonus the skills you gain won't be throwaway as you can apply them to your next idea. Really unlikely that your very first idea will take off anyway so you'll need multiple tries, and ideas are mostly worthless - it's all about execution
Great insights! Thanks for commenting. Agreed, execution makes or breaks a business
+1 on the No-code platform suggestion. You don't have to know how to code to build something unique, you just have to be different from the rest. No-code has come very far, making it possible to build a lot of different types of products. There's a ton of AI products out there that are built on no-code platforms, and you'd never know as a user.
I understand your will to build your tech ideas quickly and your concern about protecting them. The link I'm sharing talks about how ideas by themselves are merely multipliers of execution. It may come across as a bit harsh, but it reflects the critical importance of hard work and effective execution in adding value to ideas. Don't let this demotivate you. What's most important is to get started and bring your ideas to life. You can do this. sive.rs/multiply
I’m pretty sure people would be interested in stealing profitable ideas 😅 just asking how non devs ship fast with as little issues as possible when outsourcing the development
No, I’m asking how do I find people who I can trust in the tech biz? I have the ideas, but I need a programmer. Is it typical to have some sort of NDA or other agreement on privacy and protection during development phase?
Thanks man! I just want to fast track the learning and get into the good stuff with coding. I understand the basics of front end and backend, but would like resources to learn about which languages are best for backend work as well as blockchain coding
Yay, if you know what you're doing. Or find someone who can streamline & optimize it
Loops.so is good for waitlist and email marketing sequences