As a technical founder I empathize with the authors situation and approach, but honestly spending that much time and energy on a product before even getting one sign up is a known failure mode.
In his own words he all-ready got early feedback from his family.
"I tried the local Iranian market. I showed it to friends, family, and potential clients. Their response: "Nobody in Iran will pay $500/month for this. The Persian language quality isn't perfect. We'll use free ChatGPT instead.""
Which should of been free feed-back on the risk vs reward.
scan the QR code with your phone, and your phone becomes the microphone. The avatar responds on screen.
Known limitation: Running on my GTX 1060 in Iran with 4G internet, so international latency might be rough. The code itself handles 100-300ms on proper infrastructure.
I get the scam concern given the circumstances. Happy to do a live Zoom walkthrough if you're seriously interested in verifying this is real.
I don't think I need to tell hacker news this, but don't scan that qr code with phone.
The only way HN is going to do that is by opening that link with either a js disabled browser and then opening the qr with a sandboxed android emulator.
I should have validated with 5-10 customers before building the full enterprise stack. The monitoring, analytics, multi-tenant architecture - all premature.
My reasoning (wrong in hindsight): I thought the barrier was "enterprise features" not "can anyone actually sell this." I'm a better builder than salesperson, and it shows.
If I could redo it: MVP in 3 months, get 10 paying customers, THEN build the infrastructure.
hackit2|3 months ago
"I tried the local Iranian market. I showed it to friends, family, and potential clients. Their response: "Nobody in Iran will pay $500/month for this. The Persian language quality isn't perfect. We'll use free ChatGPT instead.""
Which should of been free feed-back on the risk vs reward.
echend|3 months ago
https://ps.neoclerks.com:8451/player.html?ss=f2ee51d8-2ea3-4...
scan the QR code with your phone, and your phone becomes the microphone. The avatar responds on screen.
Known limitation: Running on my GTX 1060 in Iran with 4G internet, so international latency might be rough. The code itself handles 100-300ms on proper infrastructure.
I get the scam concern given the circumstances. Happy to do a live Zoom walkthrough if you're seriously interested in verifying this is real.
TZubiri|3 months ago
The only way HN is going to do that is by opening that link with either a js disabled browser and then opening the qr with a sandboxed android emulator.
echend|3 months ago
I should have validated with 5-10 customers before building the full enterprise stack. The monitoring, analytics, multi-tenant architecture - all premature.
My reasoning (wrong in hindsight): I thought the barrier was "enterprise features" not "can anyone actually sell this." I'm a better builder than salesperson, and it shows.
If I could redo it: MVP in 3 months, get 10 paying customers, THEN build the infrastructure.
Lesson learned the expensive way.