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Originally Posted by indes
At first it was just because I thought it was a great idea. While I don't do a ton of this type of travel (I wish) I'm like the go to booking guy for my extended family. My in laws travel frequently and are always asking what sports they can see and who's playing. There's just no way to easily look it up and cross reference multiple sports. From there I started searching and using AI to look for a business case. Apparently SportCations (really need to make this stick haha) are a massive industry. Once I saw the number of people that make trips like these every year(est. 5-11million) I thought I might have something here.
Then once I started I just couldn't stop. It's honestly been a ton of fun learning the coding, troubleshooting and just making something that I think is super cool. I've always loved problem solving and finding creative solutions to problems so apparently web dev is right up my alley. I'm currently just obsessed with working on the site and fine tuning everything. Even if it doesn't work out and never makes a dime I'll be proud of myself for making something and I'm just enjoying the experience and excitement from working on something new.
I did stress a lot about the IP thing to start, as I didn't want to give it away either so I get that! When I was pitching it I made sure to only use reputable, large companies and not fiverr or a friend of a friend.
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There is quite a bit of chatter online about why anything should be built or created since it won't become a big success. My philosophy on creating anything (apps, music, writing, etc) is that doing it for success is a trap. As cliche as it may sound, the only thing that matters is the journey of creation, and to me this is pretty much the perfect outcome.
He built a cool thing that he otherwise couldn't have, it took him about as much time as it took most of my former clients to write 8 pages of web copy, and he had fun doing it. That's enormously fulfilling, and I think it ties into somewhere deep within humans to create. I remain unconvinced there's much of a point to all of this beyond that.
As for the doom and gloom, I oscillate between incredibly excited and totally petrified. The general tone in the community does appear to be shifting towards a very fast takeoff. There are some people at the helm of the big models that have been fairly conservative and are shifting towards an attitude of concern over the speed this is all happening. Sora 2 was built in a couple weeks, Claude Cowork the same, the people making the models aren't even coding the upgrades (which are coming at an alarming rate). To me the argument that there's nothing here is getting weaker.
Perhaps it's all marketing fluff and these people are just riling up interest? That's my hope because I don't trust government to move quickly enough to adapt, but my concern is almost everything we hear from these people (love it or hate it) is coming true.
Robots are one-shotting tasks that they have no business being able to complete without years of training. Waymos are rolling out simultaneously to multiple cities at once. Agents have gone from working for a couple minutes 18 months ago, to multiple hours per day.
Indes should not have been able to build that site in 6 months. He's not a developer! It just blows my mind that at every turn there's so much evidence of where it seems we're headed yet so many people won't acknowledge it.
