Before You Vibe Code Your Next Startup, Find Out If Anyone Wants It
A few years ago, building a software product required a serious commitment. You either spent months developing an MVP yourself or raised enough money to hire a team. Development was expensive, which naturally forced founders to think carefully about which ideas were worth pursuing. AI has changed that equation. Today, you can build a functional product in a weekend. Sometimes in a few hours. And that's incredible. But there's an unintended consequence: building has become so easy that we're increasingly skipping the question of whether anyone actually needs what we're building. The bottleneck has shifted from Can I build this? to Should I build this at all?
This fall, I joined AltaLab, a startup accelerator created by venture investor Igor Ryabenkiy and the AltaIR Capital team, with my startup, TheBold.vc. AltaIR's portfolio includes more than ten unicorns, including Miro, Deel, PandaDoc, and Turing. During the program, we worked through several...
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