For founders · checklist
Demo or product
Demos are built to survive four minutes in front of a friendly audience. Products are built to survive Tuesday. Here is how to tell which one you were shown.
What is on it
- It was shown on the same three examples every time
- Nobody typed anything unexpected during the demo
- There is no visible behaviour for when the model is wrong
- Errors are shown as a spinner that never resolves
- There is no rate limit, so one user can spend everything
- Nothing is logged, so nobody can tell you what happened
- It has never run against a full copy of real data
- The person who built it is the only one who can run it
- There is no way to switch models if the provider fails
- Nobody has written down what it is not allowed to do
Take it with you
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