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A friend of mine has a sister that works in the baby market. She is doing just fine with her business. She runs a small scale accessory business that sells useful tools for moms with infants and young toddlers. She said she saw her biggest year of growth in 2023 and my friend joked that was because of the lockdowns and people having more sex lol

As a cat lover, I just really enjoy this name and their icon/logo! haha I have never heard of them before however. I am looking through the site and it seems like they just have a system that runs on top of other AI models. So it makes it easier to promt them to build something for you.

I think the thread topic was a bit too passive. This is correct though. GZ gets it. You want to have the right people flocking to your business. This is what sustains growth too.

Oh boy. I had not heard much about this but I did do a quick search, and you are right. They are having issues. A lot of people don't want AI on the platform. Some people are talking about ending their channels over it as AI channels are just ripping other people off too.

Was anyone here impacted? Apparently they had some issues not related to a cyber attack but something that caused a massive global outage. The servers behind Outlook, Teams, and Copilot were overwhelmed and basically just stopped functioning correctly. I feel like if this was some sort of cyber issue, they wouldn't say anything anyways. Last time they had a big issue, I moved away from Outlook. Never looked back.

Yup, FB is far from dead and still a good platform for businesses. I have several family members that still use it daily if not weekly. Even some that use it just for business. I believe Facebook also did a payout program similar to Instagram and X but I am not 100%.

A lot of people do this or have done this though. It is a reality. If everyone could be successful, we would all be business owners but that is not how the world works!

Thanks for all the replies, keep the ideas coming. I want to see what else people can think of. I have been looking into more stuff based on the replies, it is helping a lot.

I read that one of the first things you should consider when starting any kind of business is the sort of customers you want to attract, work with, sell to, and manage. A lot of people tend to either think of this later or not at all, and run into aggravation down the road. What do you guys think - is this something you should consider? Or for those of you who already have a successful or running business of any size, did you consider your customer preferences first?

A lot of people are talking about vibe coding replacements for software. The Adobe Suite, PhotoShop, Microsoft Office, etc. etc. are all being recoded into dozens if not hundreds of different variations by people either looking to just tinker around or save a lot of money. Some of these companies charge a lot of money for this software too and if someone can just make a version of it for free, I wonder how this will impact them down the road. Either way, have you tried vibe coding a replacement for anything you use yet?

I think this is the simplest yet best answer there is. If you take people's opinions of AI who hate it or have a negative outlook on it, it almost always comes down to not wanting things to change.

A good example of this is the PS5. I am sure most people here know about it, especially if you play video games. People used AI to basically jailbreak and mod PS5 consoles to the point where not only can you play any game on their store front for free, you can even use the system to host other consoles and tun the PS5 as an emulation machine. They have tried and failed a number of times to patch the problem cause they just keep breaking back in. I would imagine if this gets bad enough, laws will be put in place to punish people for stuff like this.

I have some doubts and even some caution when it comes to AI but to outright hate it seems very unproductive. Like you don't have to use it but if you don't make use of it now while it is still new, you will end up falling behind everyone else who does.

Big or small, what roles do you think AI can do as good if not better (outperform people) in a business? I am curious about this as I know companies have already began replacing some roles with AI but for people looking to start up businesses or grow smaller ones, I think knowing which roles AI can manage ahead of time will save them not only "time" but a lot of money and hassle.

I know, WP will always be the gold standard. I have tried other platforms I prefer more but WP always has something other ones don't making it hard for people to move away from it.