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Too many founders start with the product. They get excited, build something, and then scramble to figure out if anyone actually wants it.
I almost did the same. Technically, I started by generating silly AI images of my boss to make my coworkers laugh. But when I saw the potential of the tools I was playing with — and how accessible they were becoming — I realized I could turn it into something real.
I didn’t have a background in AI or deep learning. But with open-source tools like Stable Diffusion suddenly available, people like me could build things that felt like