alt Hacker NewsThose sound like typical bootstrap-sized workflow optimization opportunities, which are always available but have a modest ceiling on both sales volume and margin.
That's great that you happened to find a way to use "AI solutions" for this, but it fits precisely inside the parents "tech wise, I'm bullish" statement. It's genuinely new tech, which can unearth some new opportunities like this, by addressing many niche problems that were either out of reach before or couldn't be done efficiently enough before. People like yourself should absolutely be looking for smart new small businesses to build with it, and maybe you'll even be able to grow that business into something incredible for yourself over the next 20 years. Congratulations and good luck.
The AI investment bubble that people are concerned about is about a whole different scale of bet being made; a bet which would only have possibly paid off if this technology completely reconfigured the economy within the next couple years. That really just doesn't seem to be in the cards.
Well said.
Folks were super bullish tech wise on the internet when it was new and that turned out it be correct. It was also correct that the .com bubble wiped out a generation of companies and those that survived took a decade or more to recover.
The same thing is playing out here… tech is great and not going away but also the business side is increasingly looking like another implosion waiting to happen.