Show HN: Vibed – execution meet real-world insight

Show HN: Vibed – execution meet real-world insight(app.getitvibed.com)

5 points by tsenkov 1 year ago | 2 comments

Executing on the right idea has always been the most important thing in a startup. Development cost used to distort this fact. When the execution cost gets next to nothing - it becomes clear that having great insight into a problem is everything.

Vibed is a marketplace where real-world insight is exchanged for execution-on/building-of a prototype.

Clients can come in and add a project, and developers can grab that project and execute on it producing a prototype. The client will get their problem solved, while the developer will instantly get PMF with count of at least 1 for a fresh new venture.

and31 1 year ago |

You position Vibed as a marketplace where “real-world insight” meets execution, mentioning that development cost is no longer the main barrier and that insight is now everything. But in my experience, genuine insight is very rare and extremely hard to identify. Most people think they have great insight, but more often than not, that turns out not to be the case. How do you prevent Vibed from becoming a graveyard of half-baked ideas, I mean projects that are trivial, already solved, or fundamentally flawed?

As an example, just look at the Play Market (the Android marketplace for apps and games). There you can find dozens of nearly identical clones of the same game, uploaded by different authors.

-> How will Vibed avoid drowning in similar low-value ideas and ensure the best ones actually surface?

tsenkov 1 year ago | |

Hey, thanks for the question(s)!

There are at least a couple points in your message that I wanna address.

> genuine insight is very rare and extremely hard to identify.

Insights capable of spawning billion-dollar companies are hard to come-by, indeed! But the smaller the scope of the idea - the bigger number of insights in existence that you can work on. When you can have a PMF on an idea with TAM of $100M in a matter of days, and you don't need VC money to make it happen, AND you can test it out with a rep of the target audience - isn't that something worth pursuing?

> How do you prevent Vibed from becoming a graveyard of half-baked ideas, I mean projects that are trivial, already solved, or fundamentally flawed?

I think people would genuinely not be incentivised to be posting projects for already solved problems, UNLESS the solutions are not exactly accessible to them, which in turn makes those project potentially a good idea still. We are just starting out so I'm not going to pretend I know rn how we would solve every problem we hit along the way (yet I hope we hit many and for a long time, haha), but one of the best ways for us to get the CONTENT we want - would be to work on getting the PEOPLE we need on the platform. We are also pretty well-versed with AI too, so we will be able to do a great moderation too (including a check for past projects that are similar -> thus to discourage repetition and plagiarism).

Hope that answers your question(s).