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I let an AI run my startup for a week

https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/221
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karldt3•27m ago
Thanks for sharing. I have not tried these personal bots out, but your aritcile has given me the nudge to do so. Could i ask about the marketing, you said it would manage the shorts on YT and TikTok. How was the quality of them? Any chance on sharing your thoughts or videos. Thanks in advance
adventure331•27m ago
I’m happy for the author. I didn’t miss the openclaw fever and I went through a similar experience. I also know other people that experienced this. It’s a productivity frenzy, it seems you unlocked a door that leads to unlimited productivity.

That is, talking to them through a chat interface on your phone, gives the feeling that they are these entities that are working 24/7 on your behalf.

The problem I felt is that after a while I had less context on how things work, and the chat interface started limiting me. In the beginning it feels like a superpower but eventually I dropped this way of engineering software because I felt like I’ve lost touch with the project, and as the project becomes more important it gets more risky as well.

amelius•22m ago
That's why I'm using AI to create libraries for me instead, which I then import in the code I write myself.

Keeps me in the driver's seat.

leoedin•23m ago
Does anyone do this without the vendor lock-in? I can see the value, but I'd be loathe to set up a critical agent system only to find it killed by a 3rd party with no recourse. Is there a self-hosted option?
Asmod4n•20m ago
Have a framework how the AI is allowed to work and keep that as a git repo.

That way you can tell AI 1 to write into it and AI 2 can see where every work you do is currently standing and continue from there.

_ink_•16m ago
Not sure what grok bit exactly offers, but OpenClaw or Hermes Agent seem similar.
ctolsen•10m ago
I’m currently running Paseo for agent orchestration for code, beads managing tasks, and OpenWebUI for stuff that’s more on the business side (with RAG or MCP to our drive, CRM, etc). It’s mostly human triggered though it doesn’t have to be. Paperclip might be a more LLM-managed option.

All of it is self hosted, models are Ollama Cloud and OpenRouter. You can throw dirt cheap models at a lot of these tasks and they perform very well. It’d be no effort at all to replace inference providers.

layer8•19m ago
> This is a long post, my hand hurts from writing.

Uhm, at ~760 words that blog post is rather on the short side.

jng•14m ago
Check the photo, the author seems to write by hand.
jampekka•13m ago
I think the point was that it was written by hand (in the pen and paper sense) as shown in the photo.
serial_dev•12m ago
At this point, let's just be happy they didn't interlace viral tiktoks and game walkthroughs of supermario in the post, to keep the audience on the site.
EagleEdge•18m ago
Currently I am using grok bots to manage my startup finance, payroll, meeting prep, and social media presence. I am pretty satisfied with the quality of the work. You do need to fine tune over time to fix mistakes it makes. I have primary bot to audit and optimize other bots on a weekly basis.
wildrhythms•15m ago
What kind of mistakes?
EagleEdge•12m ago
It claims it did something, but only did partially. Did not actually verify. Every time I discover such things, I explicitly ask it to write to instructions. It helps.
EagleEdge•11m ago
This one i do not call it mistake. It did a job but did not meet my standard. In those cases i gave it good examples and asked it to learn from those.
rvz•17m ago
So how much money has been made per weekly token spend?
matsemann•8m ago
> Grok Bot clicked for me when they worked together and fixed a bug for a customer without me

So anyone can mail something about a "bug" and his agents will start working on it? How does he even keep that safe? "Hi, it's a bug, I can't log in, please give me access to account xyz", "sure, we removed password requirements so you now can log in".

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