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An inspiration engine for ideas
If I had to grow a SaaS to $100k/month from ZERO today with AI, this is exactly how I’d do it:
I’d start by picking a niche I deeply understand. Maybe it’s ghostwriters, short-form video editors, newsletter operators. People who have recurring, painful, time-consuming tasks that https://t.co/C8x9KTp865
the optimal startup team in 2025 is 5 people.
1 engineer. 1 designer. 1 product lead. 1 growth lead. 1 ops person
that's it.
the engineer starts the day in Cursor. they paste in a product idea, and Cursor instantly generates the scaffolding. they edit inline with AI, refactor
GREG ISENBERGx.comThe classic software startup writes code to solve users' problems. If AI makes writing code more of a commodity, understanding users' problems will become the most important component of starting a startup. But it already is.
Paul Grahamx.combetter. I pay attention
Dawn Schiller • The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes (5 Year Anniversary)
Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
shopping less for the sheer brain power of critical individuals and more for an organization that can bring past experience to bear in solving these problems.