u/vikramaditya_patil

Since AI became popular, everyone suddenly became a guru.

Every day I see another post teaching people how to make money with AI.

10-minute workflows.
Secret prompts.
"Use these 3 tools and make $500/day."

The problem isn't AI.

The problem is that people are spending more time teaching the opportunity than actually building something with it.

I'm not against sharing knowledge. That's useful.

But social media needs more:

• real experiments
• real numbers
• real failures
• things that actually worked

Less "here's how to get rich with AI."

More "I tried this, here's what happened."

What kind of AI content do you actually find useful?

Something feels strange about the current AI boom.

People are selling courses on "how to make money with AI" for ₹9, ₹10, ₹99, etc.

And now we're seeing people teaching others how to make money with AI even when they haven't actually built a business around it themselves.

I'm not saying every course is bad.

What bothers me is the incentive:

Sometimes the easier way to make money from an AI opportunity is to teach people how to make money from that opportunity.

We've seen versions of this before with crypto, dropshipping, affiliate marketing, and trading.

So I'm curious:

Do you think the AI "make money online" market is creating more real opportunities—or mostly creating a new market of people selling the dream of those opportunities?

I built a tool that extracts and verifies contact details from websites, but I have no idea how to sell it.

If you were a founder starting from zero today, how would you get your first 10 paying customers?

Would you focus on cold outreach, content marketing, SEO, partnerships, marketplaces, social media, or something else?

I'm not looking for generic advice—I'd love to hear what actually worked for you or what you'd do differently if you were starting again.

I stopped chasing features and started solving one painful problem well. It slowed development but made every decision clearer. What's one founder lesson that completely changed how you build?

Instead of building everything, I picked one problem that businesses deal with every day: finding accurate business contact information.

That shift changed how I think about product development.

Now, before writing code, I ask myself:

What problem am I solving?

Who loses time because of it?

Would I pay for this solution if I were the customer?

It's a much harder way to build because you have to say "no" to a lot of ideas.

But it also feels like the only sustainable way to create products people actually use.

For those of you building startups:

What was the biggest mindset shift that made you build better products?

If you could go back to day one, which skill would you learn first to earn your first $1,000 online?

Programming, design, copywriting, sales, video editing, AI, marketing, something else?

Why that skill?

I've been trying to grow on X by consistently replying to posts instead of just publishing my own.

I make an effort to write replies that add something useful to the conversation rather than generic comments.

However, most of my replies only get 1–2 views, even when they're on posts from large accounts.

I'm trying to understand how reply visibility actually works.

Is it mainly influenced by:

account age?

follower count?

timing?

early likes on the reply?

X Premium?

something else?

If you've gone from almost no reply visibility to consistent engagement, what made the biggest difference?

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

Never let the results be your only motivation, and never become attached to inaction.

I find this verse especially relevant because it's easy to become attached to outcomes, whether in work, studies, or daily life.

This shloka reminds me to focus on doing my duty sincerely and let the results come in their own time.

How do you personally understand or apply this verse in your life?