Danny Postma

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The Startup Ideas Podcast · 5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend · 5 Aug 2024 podcast

It literally just feels like you're hiring someone to do it, but it's not the person, it's the AI doing it. For example, I think before you would go to Upwork for like a translation job, right? So you have an Excel sheet, you find a freelancer, he's going to translate it and you get the stuff back later. This could be now 100%.

automated you don't need a person to do this anymore but I think a lot of like normies regular people they might be afraid of AI so if you just literally make a job website where you can go and there's literally a translate option You drop your Excel and then a day later, for example, you get your Excel sheet back that's translated and the back end is all AI doing it.

It's like a hundred percent AI. It's automated. I think that will be so much easier to sell. And it's basically just, yeah, the future of working, the future of jobs.

Probably because Google Translate is not good enough and someone doesn't want to put 10,000 rows of Excel in a Google Translate. That's the thing. You either got to build the API yourself and need to know how to program or you're going to go to Upwork and let someone else do it. You're going to be the person that literally already built the API, but you're going to make it feel like it's up.

Well, and it's also like, you don't want to babysit it, right? You don't want to check it. You don't want to fact check it. You don't want to see if it's working. You basically just want to dump your stuff, give the task and you want to get back what you paid for and don't use your time in that sense.

Let's see. Is it already taken? Dumpyourstuff.com.

You can have your own AI translate. Dumpyourstuff.com is taken, man. I'm so sorry.

Yeah, .ai, 80 bucks per year. You can register it. There you go.

You've got some good listeners, man. Yeah, but I think this one is exciting. I'm just like... Just like gradually build it out. I'm pretty sure you can just have a community. Maybe this should be built on top of Comfy UI. You can have a community, build out these workflows, offer it as a service, and then you just charge a fee over it.

So for example, you can have some random guy in San Francisco who's going to build... this translation service, for example. You run it through the platform. As a platform, you change like a 5% fee and he charges you like one cent per row or whatever. So he can basically like offer his AI worker on the platform automated. You get a fee over it.

And it's basically just this whole economy that just works in that way.

I would probably just go on Upwork and just offering it as a service there. And I know they have a whole panning blacklist system against scrapers, but there's... I know someone who made a work around it, so it's doable. You can basically just like... Airbnb did this, right? They made fake adverts on Craigslist for their hosts.

And then just to fill the platform, you can just seed your platform in that way.

And I'm pretty sure in the thing is you can just go on Upwork, you can see what is the most requested job that people offer or require over there. You can just automate it. So the data is already there. You just have to, yeah, you can just apply to the jobs, offer it as a service. I think it's pretty easy to be scalable. Perhaps you need some real humans in the mix that need to do the checking.

Maybe some account manager that checks the output of the job eventually. So you need to hire someone via somewhere.com. Nice plug for our friends. To do the managing or whatever.

someone you know the the vp of m a at fiverr or upworks like sees it and it's like i need to buy this thing because they must need like i was expecting honestly them them to start doing something with this but i have not seen any of these two companies mentioning maybe maybe they're afraid of the backlash because they run on the freelancers right so you don't want to get rid of that

I know the stock is down 95% since 2022. I bought some Upwork stock and it went to absolute shit. So they got to do something, I guess.

I haven't checked. Probably revenue is down. 2020 bubble popped. But I'm pretty sure also people probably just expect that they are low-level tasks, right? Like their tasks are automatable by AI. So there must be, like investors must be super scared. Like where's the revenue potential?

They would probably buy you out. If you can make this work successfully, they need to. Because they probably have a ton of cash on their hands because they didn't IPO that long ago. They must be... They are going to acquire you if you make this work.

Yeah, dude, I'm telling you, if I didn't have Hedgehog Pro, I would be working on this, but I'm too busy with it, so... So they used to be worth probably $20 billion. Crazy. So in 2023, they had $689 million of revenue.

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