Thank you Juan Salas-Romer, Josh Woll, Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, Frida Spikdotter, Marko Schmitt, and 760 (!!) other people for tuning into my live video with Orel.
In this live, Orel and I discuss what it means to build a product alone using AI, and why slowing down was the decision that made his work sustainable. Orel built WriteStack, a scheduling and analytics tool for Substack creators, as a solo founder.
I personally use WriteStack every day as a way to help schedule my Substack Team Notes and also better understand which Notes help to drive engagement, and which are incongruent with Slow AI.
We talk about why he stopped spreading himself across multiple projects, what AI actually does well in a solo build and where it falls short, and why the Substack ecosystem needs tools built by people who use the platform themselves.
And for people who are interested in Wispr Flow, here’s a link that gets you one month’s use for free. Both Orel and I really recommend it as a great AI tool, because it does one thing (dictation) extremely well, whilst still giving judgement and discernment to the user.
Finally, please do subscribe to The Indiepreneur. Orel is building in public with honesty about what works and what does not.
Go Slow,
Sam
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