... Glen(@borisglen): @gerald__brouillette  Spot on, my friend! Comment from Boris Glen(@borisglen): Yes, product quality, marketing, market size, and everything else matters but only after you've found a strong pain. Most successful startups (Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Dropbox, and others) solved exactly that a strong pain of their users. Paul Graham himself confirms this through the success of his own accelerator, which ranks first in the world and more precisely, through the results of the startups that ...

... useful. Comment from Navanita Devi(@navanita_devi): Dedy's point is interesting, the opacity problem is real. Most people conflate "AI having access" with "AI having unchecked control." They're very different things. Read-only access vs write access, logged actions vs

... spreadsheet, a whatsapp group, a notebook, something they were actively maintaining before you turned up. education had no workaround, becuase nobody was doing it badly, they just werent doing it. thats the axis id use instead of boring versus exciting. plenty of boring problems have no workaround either, and those are just as dead. they are boring precisely becuase nobody cares enough to have hacked around them. the version of this that cost me the most: our first paying customer ... ... from Abdul Rehman(@abod_rehman): Three years wasn t wasted, it trained you for this win. If you had to start again, what would you skip entirely? Comment from Boris Glen(@borisglen): Another example that comes to mind is DoorDash

... grocery list. It's a wholesome app. @lincoln_brown1 really gave you industry pointers and i agree with @bertmatt a voice-first ui would make it stand out. Comment from AJ(@build_with_aj): If you add Uber eats, doordash, postmates, or any delivery service for groceries as an integration people will flock to this. Comment from vikas shah(@chiefbuilder): @bertmatt  Thanks. Agreed, voice-first as an input is what we are looking to start with. Comment from vikas ...