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Neil's Sell your product then build suggests using AI to identify market wants prior to physical or digital product creation. Methods like brand A/B testing across multiple free accounts can tap into product development phases you wouldn't have otherwise accessed.

Speaking of A/B testing, what stops you from experimenting with multiple creation modes? As mentioned in sought by ai, the AI label images and symbols map well to varied AI usage with options like made with AI, assisted by AI, and no AI used. Prototype what you wish to sell or build across those paradigms. Not only can you identify their comparative strengths and weaknesses, but you can find which approach yields the best results for your intended product. No matter which method fits your madness, exploit prototyping for how underrated, cheap, and time-saving it is.

In a sense, I see handsome little sea weevil's bored blog begins as a prescient prototype:

Today I'm just chilling at home bored and thought hey, why don't I start a blog with no theme, no ideas, and no idea where this is going!

You might not construe it as a prototype that sells before it builds. However, it's the first example from the author that I'm aware of. It tests the waters and has the essential feature of posts to come: the author's words. Could prototypes mimic repetitions?

You can just make a YouTube video like Mason recounts in I made a youtube video. May the inevitable process hiccups represent precious learning opportunities. Even if he doesn't think he can talk properly yet, he built a foundation to practice that skill and others from now on. Iteration accretes practice for how best to edit your footage, present yourself in front of a camera, and otherwise.

An aside: how are the fledgling video, podcast, and other multimedia creators coalescing in this space via directories, webrings, and other collaborative structures? Could that be a massive opportunity for many should someone take the reins? Has such an initiative flown under my nose?

Speaking of podcasts, Ian shares relevant insights in his comic, Inpho's Imaginary Podcast. Our surroundings, discernment, interests, and dreams can be enough of an impetus to start recording episodes. You don't need fancy equipment to start podcasting in the same way that a blog can start with a website and your words. Like Inpho eventually realizes, prototyping digital spaces (as Lofgren's Get a digital space puts it) or virtual spaces (as I put it in many prior posts) can bring enlightenment to your entire universe. Like those invested in Mason shipping his YouTube video above, who may be invested in Ian prototyping his podcast for real? What about your future podcast or other creative initiative?

Despite how venerated digital spaces are, the frequency at which people rent (not own) such spaces might catch you off guard. Hosted services, like the subdomain you're viewing this post from, won't last forever. Domain names only get renewed so many times before being relinquished. Top-level domains get decommissioned, have their terms changed, or otherwise change. Routinely contribute to or syndicate across multiple platforms to limit the constraints of their mercy or your ownership. That way, healthy presences dampen the fall of any given pillar, no matter how long it has been up for.

You're never too late to the party. You can just mockup prototypes without worrying about missing out as Fabián indicates in I Am Not Behind—I’m in Training. Let's train toward greatness together, carrying away small stones to eventually move the mountains before us. Proceed through life 1 beautiful thing at a time.

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