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wickedsightyesterday at 8:02 AM1 replyview on HN

Also, people here are probably too technically inclined to understand what normal people want. If you look at the $500/mo side projects thread, there's a bunch of projects where HN would probably say: 'but anyone can do that themselves using X'.

Like the person creating coloring pages from images using Stable Diffusion. Many HN users would just do it themselves, but many parents have no idea how to do that.

Makes me wonder how many potentially successful businesses never get built, because too many people are trying to build the next big YC project with AI or whatever tech is hype today.


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re-thcyesterday at 8:14 AM

> Many HN users would just do it themselves

More likes “claim” to do it themselves. Commenting on the Internet is easy. Making effort is not.

> Makes me wonder how many potentially successful businesses never get built, because too many people are trying to build the next big YC project

The can do it yourself crowd will still claim anything can be done themselves no matter big or small.