Hey I have vast experience in the UI/UX space. Do you have discord so we can discuss further?

What exactly do you plan to do? This is all well and good, but do you actually have an idea for a unique product and a plan to market it?

Absolutely, but that information is only available for people who are willing to sign an NDA.

It seems you frequent r/promptart, r/midjourney and even r/aliens and r/collapse, all of this is to ask what field do you specialize in exactly? You say you work in advertising and marketing, but how does that translate to business experience? What expertise do you and your friend offer that differ from each other? Do you share the exact same expertise? You said you’ve worked with Hollywood productions before, how is this related to your startup? You use a lot of buzzwords and phrases such as “rise from the ashes” you also claim to have connections with “high net worth individuals” which is incredibly vague. This whole post just seems like you don’t necessarily have a plan.

I don't think you could have more red flags in a job posting if you tried: No technical know-how but a big unspecified vision. No employees. I guess that means no salary either. "Access to high-net worth individuals". So no funding, yet?

Sounds like you have nothing. No funding, no team, no idea whether what you are doing is technically feasible or how much it would cost or what resources you would need. And additionally you want people to sign up for "something" and assume all the financial risk themselves. Does that sound about right? It is basically the meme of the "ideas guy".

My thoughts are that we would scale with funding. I’m doing this currently on the side while I do my normal job. The thought I had was if I were to start building the team now, it would be easier to go to investors. Right now it’s just my board of advisors and my co-founder. That’s not enough to move the needle in my opinion. I understand your concern and I thought this would be an issue. That’s why I’m also meeting with a company that already has a team in place to do this. So technically this post is a second option I thought would be interesting to explore. I can see it from your perspective that everyone that comes through here is all talk no action…but sometimes there are exemptions to that rule.

“Earlier this year, I formed an LLC with a long-time friend who shares the same expertise …”

Which is what, exactly?

Without doxing myself, I work in Television/Film/Advertising in Los Angeles.

We work on high end production in the film and tv space.

You might have better luck in the r/StableDiffusion, r/Midjourney, or r/AIGrinding if you’re looking for help with things related to image production. This sub tends to be a little more technical and broadly focused on ML in general.

Edit: And yeah, sorry you need to work on your pitch a little bit. Programmers get pitched about a thousand ideas a minute from people who think they have “the next big app.” We also have day jobs so putting a lot into someone else’s project has to come with some concrete ideas and promises.

Not focused on that. I work in the film and television industry and I see a need for something in that market that AI can help with, but I got downvoted to hell and will look elsewhere. It wasn’t really a need to find people on Reddit, just exploring it as an option for trying to do things in a more cost effective way so we don’t burn through our capital so quickly. Instead I think we’re going to go with this firm in NYC that is giving us a quote on our project, just wanted to explore another option…clearly that wasn’t a good idea.

Best of luck to you. I’d save this post and if you ever get the chance to say “I told you so…”. Well, I’m not saying I wouldn’t.

Oh believe me, I already did. Also I just starting building the team outside of Reddit and got a meeting scheduled a month out with a billionaire investor. I think me coming on Reddit was a dumb idea now that I think about it but it’s going to be funny a year from now when I look back at these screen shots.