325: Indie Hackers’ Myopic View of AI

The Bootstrapped Founder

05/31/24

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"Everyone and their mother are talking about AI. Every founder releases their 500th GPT wrapper."

"AI is all hype, no substance."

Or is it? What if our collective perspective is really skewed, and our gathering places are to blame? Here's my take on why indie hackers have a dangerously biased view on what AI businesses are and should look like.

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