My First Million

The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.

AI-First Lifestyle Business Replacements

For: Customers of small, stagnant B2B software companies

Buildability

Many lifestyle B2B software businesses are vulnerable to AI-powered competitors that can deliver better products with smaller teams

Systematically identify lifestyle businesses and build AI-first replacements that are 10x better with 90% fewer people

AI enables small teams to build software that previously required large organizations, while many incumbents aren't adapting fast enough

Day 1

Identify specific lifestyle business to target

Day 2

Build core features using AI tools in one week

Day 3

Reach out to 100 customers of incumbent solution

Day 4

Launch with basic functionality and rapid iteration

Survey customers of lifestyle businesses about pain points

Build rapid prototype using AI development tools

Test willingness to switch with pricing advantage

SaaS subscription, significantly underpricing incumbents while maintaining better margins

Speed of development, AI-native architecture, better unit economics

Incumbent may wake up and adopt AIMarket may be smaller than assumedCustomer switching costs may be higher than expected