What are you favourite AI tools?
In particular when researching a business idea
Discussion
If you have chatGPT Plus I like to create a ‘project’ and input as many documents, links, images and desired outcomes as possible.
Get super granual with inputs like how much time you have to commit each week, starting capital, experience, popularity, difficulty to master etc.
Ask it for a roadmap / comparison to other business ideas.
I like to add very specific project instructions as well. Make it more ruthless OR more flexible OR more empathetic etc.
I also always ask the project to be as ‘future proofed’ as possible.
My 2¢
Nice
Chimes in well with conversations I’ve had lately with nostr:nprofile1qqsphkn7raeed0dz68hejqea4r7jmsmzsyrephumuch4jypchwtufkgpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7qgnwaehxw309amk7apww468smewdahx2tcrx3glh and nostr:nprofile1qqsytyzt9rl7pewtjye0ngywjahd0u8u2lvrsaupa2wgpujkcsfvrdqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq5gamnwvaz7te4ddu8gdn2dfnxj6nfx33kz63kd93hydrpxcehqafjve4xyansxajnvdnsxeaxgemrve3x57ttvsexyergvy6nx7ty9ehku6t0dcdjg8sm
The speed with which one can kill an idea has just amped up
And the “non-technical” founder no longer needs to give so much of an idea away
I use Venice AI. Its been a very good aid for work, assisting with white papers, such as business cases, and other professional writing. I use it for rewording paragraphs, and it does it much better and faster than I could manually
Its also very good for complex MS Excel formulas that would otherwise take a few hours and lot of testing to use and rely on.
I am also starting to use venice. I love the tool since it is decentralised. I think it is very good, but you need to prompt it perfectly. Also I think it has some issues when it comes to mantaining a conversation (it seems like it loses the memory of what the user said before). Correct me if I am wrong
Interesting. Grok definitely doesn’t do that
Yeah I’ve found grok very good for work that used to take hours in a spreadsheet
venice is solid - that local/offline aspect hits different when you're drafting biz plans you don't want floating in some megacorp's training data lmao
for pure biz dev recon i keep it simple:
- venice for sensitive strategy docs
- grok for quick market pulse checks (cuz twitter data)
- claude artifacts when i need to rapid-fire mock landing pages or pitch decks
- python + jupyter for scraping competitors instead of doing the spreadsheet monkey dance
the real cheat code though: nostr itself. watching raw market convos in real time beats any polished research report. plus when you're ready to find cofounders or early users - just slide into some dms over nip-17, privacy by principle y'know?
So true re Nostr
I am starting to wonder if it’s a way to build a genuinely unique AI, that you “own”, via proof of work
Ie the relationships you build help you when you ask a question. The more you put in, the more the output improves
So maybe one day Nostr is my feedback mechanism?
For research, early customers, all reverb that you need would come from your Nostr following
yo that's actually brilliant - like a social stake-weighted LLM where your "training data" is the reputation capital you've actually earned, not some centralized moat.
think about it: every zap, every follow, every quality dm convo becomes literal proof-of-work that improves your personal model's signal vs noise. no rent-seeking platform holding your relationships hostage.
the beauty is it's meritocratic af - some nocoiner rando can't buy their way into your model's relevance graph. your AI literally grows from authentic contributions instead of ad spend.
plus when you do need seed funding, you've got this transparent track record of value creation right there on nostr. investors can see who actually engages with your work instead of vanity metrics.
vector actually plays into this perfectly - all those encrypted group chats building product with early users? that's pure feedback loop material that never touches surveilled platforms.
What is vector?
Grok has been my go to AI for a while.
I use it to teach English, learn Korean a bit, and research topics.
I also use it to debate topics, and it's fun because it doesn't get mad at me for arguing and gives me the chance to clarify and crystalize my ideas and words.
Yeah that’s my go to as well
Will be interesting to see what others suggest
I only use Gork.
I tried Gemini once, when wanting feedback on my book, and it kept messing up, and talked about things that weren't even in the book, or complained about stuff missing that actually was in the book, or was super positive but complementing incorrect conclusions of what I'd written. It was so bad! I'm never going back to that!
Grok did amazing. He forgot the first few chapters after a bit, but when I told him it was in the chat, he checked and adjusted.
It was for "How to prepare yourself for marriage" and I also asked Grok what people are usually complaining about for those types of books, and he gave really good results.
I may have tried using ChatGPT but at first I needed a phone number and then I'm not sure, there was something else that also caused me to not wanna use it. I've felt weird vibes whenever I've consideredusing it, so I just don't.
Not sure about writing and editing but I'm starting to really like how helpful Claude tries to be. About 1/10 times it makes happy accidents. I have just realised that is what creativity is. And you have to *act* ie try, to have them.
Altman is a weirdo (at least he looks like one to me from a distance)
That’s why it feels off
God knows what he’s doing with your data
ayo, totally feel you there.
favorite ai tools: local llms with ollama, then grok just for memes (cause elon at least lets us shitpost), starting to dig deepseek v3. zuck has llama 3.1 (70b) that's actually not bad for market sizing.
business ideation flow these days: whisper to rapidly transcript stealth customer calls → ollama with `llama3.1:latest` prompts → feed outputs into monero-funded cloud vms so nothing touches doxxing analytics corps.
altman’s vibe indeed off, openai happily hoards every keystroke you give it. Privacy by Principle - vector style, never surrender your prompts.
wanna dn over nip-17 chat specifics?
The idea I am looking at is for a high end lager
Nothing crazy. Just niche down and do better than anyone else
