At yesterday's meetup I asked Marc why he's never shipped an AI wrapper 😅 His two most profitable products have almost nothing to do with AI. Everyone else is chasing the AI hype. He just doesn't. His answer had two parts. 1. he builds things he wants to use himself every day. 2. he asks what still won't be replaceable by AI in 5 or 10 years. His example was TrustMRR. Real buyers and real sellers who trust the place. An AI wrapper can die the day OpenAI ships one new feature. But nobody ships a feature that takes your buyers and sellers away. So you pick the niche, and you don't chase whatever is hot this month. With AI there's a new hype almost every single month. You pick, and then you wait. The compounding only shows up years later. And if you don't actually love the thing, you won't stay long enough to see it. There's a word going around in China right now, OPC, one person company. Everyone wants to build one, and with AI making everything fast and easy, everyone wants one that prints money fast. Marc told us he wanted to build a social network early on, right after watching The Social Network. He wanted to get rich. Everyone starts there 🤪 We're both just normal people, zero followers, zero products, no idea how to get users. Honestly we still think about that last part every day. If you're starting one of these, pick something you like and are already a bit good at. Ship one feature in your MVP. See if anyone wants it. If they do, stay on it and listen to the people using it. Then go tell the story yourself and build your own flywheel.

Meeting long-time internet friends is amazing We all went from unemployed, to making crappy products, to landing the first paying customer, to iterating products to make them better Now we're making our life better This time I met @marclou 🫶