I built a side hustle called https://fracternal.com,
It’s like the tinder for finding fractional executives online. Right now in beta I’ve got about 6 paying customers and a few hundred solid candida orofiles. I do the background work for clients but I’m going to add a feature that will make it much more self serve (swiping profiles) vs me sending them. All the profiles are selected using AI
My preferred stack is nextjs (react based) on the front end and either Django or fastapi on the backend. React allows you to build mvps really fast, handle states very well and has a lot of hooks you can use.
The downside to this is it makes code heavy sometimes. I use nextjs because I love the server side rendering and seo optimization it provides and use the client components (traditional react) to manage state.
For context I prefer to use pure Python. I think frameworks like crew and autogen are too limiting. Langchain is annoyingly over bloated and made super confusing (just check on reddit).
I use Python, pydantic for data validation and vector dbs. I use a combo of openai and open source models for the LLM. It seems to work well so far and I can control what I want the bot to do
Don’t be hard on yourself. Sometimes we all go through that internally. Life is a roller coaster you gotta ride the highs and the thrills that come from it and problem solve when the lows are around. If you think you don’t understand a concept then some self study is a great way to fill the gap. You could read a book, watch some YouTube videos or what I like to do is listen to a few good podcasts
Game development even as a hobbyist is quite impressive. The question is do you enjoy it enough to make a career from it?
Either way keep treking along, you’re not the only one feeling that way. Been there, done that, closed the gap and on to the next problem :)
You could do this with ease with an LLM and function calling. What would you be doing differently? If you can help non technical ppl then maybe but I’d argue anyone using JSON is likely technical :)
I’ve built a few of these with OpenAI function calling and it seems to do a pretty good job. I have yet to convert those over to open source models but doable.
Try it out and see what ppl think. The one thing you have to keep in mind is privacy around data. If you can somehow make this work such that user privacy is not an issue then you might be good. Lots of companies are hesitant to process their data outside of their servers but again depends on data classification policies.
Once you build it let me know I can help you test it out.
Don’t forget amex
Anything is possible but not easy. I believe the closest thing to alt cash payments we’ve had in the past few decades was crypto but that haven’t really taken off much. After the FTX scandal it’s taken a bit of a back seat in terms of consumer confidence
Visa and Mastercard have built trust not only with consumers but also large banks. That relationship in itself is hard to dethrone. You really need a viable alternative that can get the confidence of the consumers and companies that will invest in the product
I use mostly Mac’s in my house but I do have a few raspberry pi’s and Linux machines in the house for projects. I have an older pc that I converted to an Ubuntu desktop device but don’t use it much day to day. I just ssh into all of them and run whatever I need for automations etc
