Solo founders – is your LLM filling the cofounder gap?
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I've been building alone and noticed I'm having 'cofounder conversations' with Claude: design/strategy debates, sanity-checking pricing, talking through whether to pivot, even self-motivational stuff when feeling existentially demoralized. I use a Claude project with a master prompt, and some supporting PRD collateral for building context. It's weirdly effective for the thinking part of having a cofounder - Obviously missing the accountability, and someone who actually gives a f** Anyone else doing this intentionally? What's working?
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Many solo founders are using Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude to simulate cofounder-like conversations, helping with tasks such as design and strategy debates, pricing sanity checks, and discussing potential pivots. While LLMs can be effective for the thinking and idea generation aspects, they lack the accountability and emotional investment a human cofounder would provide. To maximize the benefits, solo founders can create a structured prompt framework and provide context through documents like PRDs to guide the LLM's responses.
Key Takeaways
Use LLMs to simulate cofounder conversations for idea generation and strategy
Create a structured prompt framework to guide LLM responses
Provide context through documents like PRDs to enhance LLM's understanding
I do the same but a co-founder usually has different view or opinion. LLMs (in my experience) are way to agreeable and just tend to agree and not push back much.