Running PGAGI we've shipped 75+ AI products, from bootstrapped tools to companies at $100M valuations. A few things I keep seeing:
1. Most "AI startups" don't have an AI problem. They have a product problem. Half the founders who come to us think they need agents. They need a clear use case first.
2. Distribution > model choice, every time. Email Love hit 40K users. Cracked Devs is at 7K MAU. VOOK Audio sold 50K+ devices, it is not because like AI was magical and all those it is coz the wedge was sharp.
3. Paid users early > vanity users. brAInify launched and has 1,000+ paid subs already. Nuaiy 500 paid. TOINGG 2.4M in pipeline. Charging early kills bad ideas fast.
4. Reddit is the hardest channel and the best signal. We've done 7M+ impressions in 4 months on Reddit alone. AI-assisted, human-written. If it works here, it works anywhere.
Happy to answer questions about any of the products or what we've learned shipping AI in production.