To all AI products founders, what is your biggest struggle after you launch your product?

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Find the next channel! So I built a tool to help automate the process submission to different directories.

Fernando Doglio · Answer

In my case, trying to find users! I think some AI-based products are too disruptive and industries outside tech might still be a little distrustful of AI as a real tool.

Hiresh Bremanand · Answer

@fernando_doglio Takes time for society to adjust to new tech that increases productivity.

Hiresh Bremanand · Answer

@fernando_doglio @dzaitzow I agree but with time we will see the companies that are solving real problems and providing true value will stand strong while the rest will dissolve away.

Ilyes Ouhadj · Answer

I think Marketing and getting your first 100 users is the biggest struggle among SaaS founders in general especially tech savvy founders, they only focus on development and neglect Marketing!

You need balance between the two, if you don't wanna do marketing, find a co-founder that can do that or if you got some budget, invest some money on a good marketer not a one-time service to an agency!

Anatolii [ @Bootstraptor ] · Answer

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Susan Fischer · Answer

Marketing is the hardest part. If there is no marketing budget, you have to literally hawk your product on the street!!

Daniel Zaitzow · Answer

@fernando_doglio @hiresh_b I also think in tandem with that - the space is becoming optically saturated so that mistrust is amplified by confusion / option overload.

Daniel Zaitzow · Answer

@fernando_doglio @hiresh_b do you see that as a good or bad thing for bootstrapped AI businesses? Hard to compete with Google at scale haha

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@fernando_doglio @hiresh_b @dzaitzow agree and to @dzaitzow difficult to know how far or not to lean into the AI part in marketing and content if everything is AI or there is distrust around it

Zeng · Answer

@fernando_doglio You are right. Getting paid users is the key

Zeng · Answer

@zedkira Thanks for sharing. That is so true!

Zeng · Answer

@chrisrickard You are right about this. There are too many tools with similar functions. And people are busy to try different tools.

Zeng · Answer

@bootstraptor oh wow. Sounds amazing!

Chris Rickard · Answer

AI is at an interesting point, there are A LOT of amazing tools out there, but the market is also getting saturated -s o it's super hard for consumers to

a) Find the time to discover them
b) Decide which ones to try

You could literally spend 3 hours every day trying to new AI tools 😆

So I would say it's differentiating yourself form the crowd - and as with any product, It's 95% all sales and marketing!

To all AI products founders, what is your biggest struggle after you launch your product?

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