The Age of the Solopreneur

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gorgmah•1 day ago

I recently tried it as a solopreneur (you don't really need to leave your job anymore since AI multiplied early-stage coding capacity significantly). Even on my tiny niche (notekeeper + AI assistant for dungeons and dragons), there's a ridiculous amount of competition (1).

I think these are the times of "marketing engineers", aka people who manage to make small tools/gimmicks that draw attention on social media. If you figure out how to do this, you'll be the king of the age of AI software.

[1] Fun fact: the demographics that plays DnD either hates AI (half of them) or now vibe-codes their own tools (the other half)

goodmythical•1 day ago

>or now vibe-codes their own tools

I was going to say, you're probably in an over-saturated niche given the overlap of coding types and roleplaying types.

Something like landscaping, plumbing, trades type folk likely have less vibe code pressure in their markets.

mmarian•1 day ago

Had some attempts as well, reached same conclusion re competition.

I don't think it's more favorable to be a marketing engineer compared to past times though. I'd argue you face even more competition there because it's so easy to make small tools. Social media is insanely crowded too. Even IRL events are flooded with speakers.

There's just an abundance of supply for services.

pillmillipedes•1 day ago

sorry, I keep misreading that word as slopreneurs - though I suppose that's not entirely wrong either

The Age of the Solopreneur

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