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1zael ◴[] No.44998995[source]
I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadmap. I hope this story becomes more and more common as time passes.
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davepeck ◴[] No.45001583[source]
> I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers.

Would you mind linking to your startup? I’m genuinely curious to see it.

(I won’t reply back with opinions about it. I just want to know what people are actually building with these tools!)

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1. bopbopbop7 ◴[] No.45005615[source]
He won’t, everyone that says they made a profitable startup with some AI code generator 3000 never seems to link their startup. Interesting.
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2. davepeck ◴[] No.45014702[source]
There are many reasons that "I used AI to do it all and now I've got $REAL ARR" strikes me as unlikely. To name just two:

1. I code with LLMs (Copilot, Claude Code). Like anyone who has done so, I know a lot about where these tools are useful and where they're hopeless. They can't do it all, claims to the contrary aside.

2. I've built a couple businesses (and failed tragicomically at building a couple more). Like anyone who has done so, I know the hard parts of startups are rarely the tech itself: sales, marketing, building a team with values, actually listening to customers and responding to their needs, making forward progress in a sea of uncertainty, getting anyone to care at all... sheesh, those are hard! Last I checked, AI doesn't singlehandedly solve any of that.

Which is not to say LLMs are useless; on the contrary, used well and aimed at the right tasks, my experience is that they can be real accelerants. They've undoubtedly changed the way I approach my own new projects. But "LLMs did it all and I've got a profitable startup"... I mean, if that's true, link to it because we should all be celebrating the achievement.