How big is the business? We talking mom and pop restaurant? A startup? A giant conglomerate ?

This is great. Thanks for the recommendation

Right.

And even pre-anything substantial it seems like it’s tough to find those just as passionate as you are. Maybe that’s just my experience

I came across this a while back and even asked the question in my MBA course where the professor was a serial entrepreneur 9+ exits, 100m average exit and he brought a legal expert in ventures to talk to the class.

The answer pretty much boils down to:

1. Did you use any specific tools that the company had access to that you otherwise would not have. Think expensive software licenses, expensive equipment etc. (not generic tools like a laptop)

2. It’s incredibly hard for a company to prove that they own your “invention” because you built it on company time. It’s not enough for you to just have worked on it during company time.

Hope this helps

What problem is this site solving?

Is it that folks can’t find laravel PHP devs through traditional recruiting channels (LinkedIn, indeed, etc) and they desperately need to fill these positions and it’s taking forever?

I think you need to answer that first question very honestly.

Why would they use your site when they can use more established recruiting platforms? What are the chances LinkedIn will have a much better candidate pool vs your site?

You almost have a network effect situation in your hands. Personally, that’s a nightmare for me.

My example was a simple one but consider the alternative.

Entering an order in an ERP requires filling out a form. Anywhere between 10-30 fields, many of which are indirectly redundant (which customer, now which address, etc)

Many times it’s also hard to know what the right information is. I know what the product is called in the field but does it have the same name internally? (Even worse if it’s just a product ID)

So entering an order in many cases is a 20-40 minute affair, and that’s just a single order.

If you use a generative AI on top of this process, you can just free form text like you and me and millions of others already know how to do and get those orders out by just describing the order. You can even describe 20 orders at the same time and get them all in.

Oh and for new people joining an org, the ERP method is even slower. The learning curve is steep