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I've been through the founder journey and now I'm working to help other entrepreneurs. From 2012-2022 I started and led a VC-backed business (bigleaf.net). Our wonderful team grew it to 100 employees and 2000 business customers during my time there. After stepping away from that role I decided to start another business - the question was, doing what? The process I went through get conviction that my next business will be successful and worth investing years of my life in is what led me to start CompanyCraft. I want to help 1 million entrepreneurs start successful businesses that improve people's lives. CompanyCraft inspires unique ideas and removes risk from the startup journey. I'm excited to use AI to benefit the lives of these entrepreneurs and everyone they interact with.
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Launch Day - Thanks again to all!
Last night, I stayed up until early morning, my eyes fixated on the rankings. Four hours after we launched Codebay, we were at the #7. Considering we only had 35 notified before launch, I really felt satisfied. But then votes started to trickle in slower, and I notice that we were not far ahead of the ones behind us in the rankings. I started to stress over whether we'd slip out of the top ten. But, around 8 hours after going live, votes for Codebay started pouring in, we've been climbing up the ladder since and currently, we secured a spot in the #3. With two more hours left, we hope we can keep it up. In the end, it's not all about the rankings. What I'm truly grateful for is each and every one of you who took the time to drop us comments and share your insightful thoughts. You've no idea how much your honest feedback matters to us. I'm well aware Codebay could use more work to be better, and we welcome all of your suggestions and pointers in the future. It's not about the glory of those ranks, it s about creating a tool that makes learning to code fun and accessible to everyone. And that is what we're really after! Once the day winds down, I intend to pen down an article outlining the ups and downs of our launch. Rest assured, I will share everything that I have learnt from this experience. Hopefully, our insights will prove beneficial for those of you gearing up for your own launches.
How should we build products and companies for the next generation of AI?
Sam Altman said that in a year the offerings from OpenAI will make the current ones look "quaint". My guess is that they will be offering a new primary interaction for us people, one where we give instructions to AI and it just makes them happen (rather than the AI giving us info back that we act upon). For example, imagine if the GPTs that everyone is making right now were really powerful, and they were controlled by a super-GPT that acted based on your instructions, things could get powerful quickly. I could tell "ChatGPT-5" to reschedule my dentist appointment to next week, and it would just make that happen (since it knows my calendar, my preferences for things, can make phone calls, etc.) So, where does that leave our products? If a new common interface between humans and the world is going to come to the forefront, how do we plan strategy for our products and companies in the coming years?