Recent content by kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONUpdate: What does Product Market Fit feel like? We just passed 415 account creations since launching LlamaPress. Our analytics say we have roughly ~10 active users, and we're adding roughly 10 new user account registrations per day. Our MRR is now approximately $1,500/month. We've learned our...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONI appreciate and welcome all forms of criticism :) An operating system is just a wrapper for the kernel. C code is just a wrapper for Assembly Python is just a wrapper for C Tensorflow & Pytorch are just wrappers for Python LLMs are just wrappers for neural nets AI Agents are just wrappers...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONTotally! It's a balancing act. I'm constantly reminded by Chris W. to be careful of "shiny object syndrome". It's hard to know when you're pulling on a valuable thread of profound market insight, vs. just chasing a squirrel, lol.- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONThanks! I agree, talking to users and iterating on product quickly is the path to product market fit. Big believer in "do things that don't scale", "talk to your users", and other Paul Graham advice surrounding startups. Paul Graham's essays are a big reason I moved to the bay area. Thanks...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONWeek 7: Our First Agency Sale! We closed our first marketing agency client for $500/month! They're a small marketing agency in Utah. The use case they're excited about is using our ChatBot on their existing WordPress site, to take existing landing pages, and input a .docx file of new content...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONThank you! I appreciate this thoughtful comment.. about to post a new update.- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONWeek 4: We ran a new experiment, the "Picture to HTML" search term on Google was attracting 6K searches for month, and there wasn't good competition. We launched a tool to upload an image, (of a form, PDF, or something similar that might want to be turned into an actual webpage) and then our...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONWeek 3: Me and a friend spent 3 hours doing a deep dive into our app, trying to build his portfolio for a student club he's apart of. It didn't go well. The Chatbot just makes errors & mistakes. Unless you know how to use it just right, and get the prompt perfect, and select the right area...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONWeek 2: This week, I've talked to an additional 4-5 marketing agencies, and they seem to be pointing me in one clear direction: a landing page builder. Even using supposedly easy builders, such as Wix, Clickfunnels, or themebuilders on WordPress, building pages is annoying and adds friction to...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTION100%. Being a page builder by itself isn't enough. I'm curious what you mean by: "Automating with AI the decision tree". What do you think the future of marketing funnels are, particularly as it relates to websites + search? People are hypothesizing the LLM will just give us all the answers --...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTION@Jobless I've been thinking more about this today. Here's a ChatGPT o1 thread simulating this type of idea, specifically having a certain ICP think through & evaluate a landing page copy to decide if it matches or not. I'd be really curious to hear your thoughts on it: ChatGPT - Home Exterior...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONTop of Mind: 1. I ran competitive conquesting PPC campaigns for my last startup, Field Rocket, against our competitor Jobber. We got good results and could consistently acquire leads and convert them into app downloads & sales. This led to landing new clients that I eventually started doing...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONThanks for the kind words, @MJ DeMarco Totally agree, AI is the topic of the day -- to an annoying extent. There are going to be a lot of failed startups and failed investments in this space, similar to how there was in the 90s with the internet. But, there will also emerge winners. Time will...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTION@Jobless I deeply appreciate this comment, and want to be challenged here. Totally agree. I can list a bunch of these that I'm seeing: traditional builders moving into this area: Framer, Wix, GoDaddy, Squarspace. I swear, there are 2-3 of these launching on Product Hunt each week. Here's a...- kody.kendall
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[PROGRESS]: Moved to SF to pursue my AI Startup Idea
SAAS / APPS EXECUTIONI love ChatGPT, maybe a little too much. My friends & family think I’m crazy. It’s not just because my obsession with ChatGPT and Claude Sonnet, it’s also due to moving from my spacious 600 sq. ft condo in Utah, into a 7ft x 3ft pod bed to work in downtown San Francisco. Why? Because San...- kody.kendall
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