How well is “if you build it, they will come” working for anyone else?

Much better than not building it and no one coming.

With many of these solutions, there's already a there there. Middle market and larger companies are seeing dramatic efficiency improvements year 1. Making this tech so accessible, while unfortunately inviting crypto bros to add "prompt engineer" title to their linkedin, also enables POCs that deliver value, even if wildly inefficient. They're a basis.

Wrappers around ChatGPT have already provided more value generation than any prod blockchain implementation I've ever heard of that couldn't otherwise be implemented as a distributed db.

Have you seen the Citizen hybrid watches? Analog hands + eink, 17+ days of battery life.

Saw Sarah Parcak speak on this at her book launch @ The Explorer's Club (https://www.amazon.com/Archaeology-Space-Future-Shapes-Past/...). The current, viable remote observation approach for shipwrecks is to use satellite photos of sand plume disturbances near beaches to hint at underwater features worth further exploration.

I run forwardapp.co for this reason - I bought it from the previous developer when they wanted to shut it down. I've used it every day since it was Jot in the early 2010s. At ~60 users who paid $2 once, it's a total commercial failure, and I'm going to keep paying for it forever.

Things that made year 1 tolerable:

- Understanding your time horizon just went from weeks/months to "today" for all definitions of "today" for awhile

- Boot Camp for New Dads (https://www.bootcampfornewdads.org/)

- Night nannies (~10 weeks)

- A Doona stroller

- Mom's On Call (book) - my daughter was sleeping 630pm-7am at 3.5mos

- Silver nipple cups (cracking/chafing = bad)

- Slumber Pod (for travel)

- Nest cameras (and a travel wifi hub like GL-MT1300 that acts as a wifi<>wifi bridge)

And at least in CO, daycare waitlists are a real thing. At 6 mos prego we were told we were late to register.

"founder" of startupschwag here ( https://techcrunch.com/2007/09/03/return-of-the-schwag/ ) - passed the torch to a guy about 10 years ago - would be happy to talk about how to bring it back, at the time the addressable market seemed... small.

I still have a few kozmo tshirts from '99 around here somewhere =)

all credit goes to valley schwag for the original concept - they went on to better things (getsatisfaction.com) - but as a subscriber to that service, I inadvertently received a cc'd (instead of bcc'd) list of 500 of their subscribers, and when valley schwag shut down, I reached out to those past subs and TechCrunch to bring it back!

Text file + Forward (forwardapp.co) - bought the source for an app called Jot before it shut down and brought it back online as Forward. Totally biased and I love it, all credit to the original author Dan Hopwood.

Forward sends me an email tomorrow, next week, with all of the notes I tag for that day. Takes it off my mind until I need to think about it.

Forward: http://ForwardApp.co

Quickly send yourself notes now. tomorrow. next week.

Has about 50 happy users and I'll keep it alive forever b/c I use it every day for time shifting thoughts on my mind =)

Hadn't heard of this type of vehicle before - this was helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22nVFTd8nI