I'm even worried about my AI project because these larger companies just have so much more in terms of resources. Unless I find some novel methodology that's difficult to replicate without its explicit capability my product is dead in the water.
Or at least put a price range. There are so many companies I outright blocked because they refused to tell me the price of their product until after their lackluster showcase.
We ended up remaking our own solution for one of them and open sourcing the code because development was 10x (maybe even 100x) cheaper than purchasing at their predatory pricing schemas.
You keep on posting here man, all with different versions of the same question "How can I become better?" without doing much follow up or immediate change/improvement. You're in a state of analysis paralysis.
At the end of the day you have to suck it up and do it yourself. No answer will ever be satisfactory without effort put into it.
Same thing with the "lot of ideas" struggle. I usually put them down initially into a sms or google notes. Then transfer into Obsidian once I get back to a laptop.
Those files are massive man, most of the ideas are 10-50 words and the file for software ideas alone has almost 5000 words (so roughly 250 of {what I think are} good software ideas). It's been an accumulation of everything for the past 6-8 years and really just enforces the whole "Ideas are a dime a dozen" mantra.
I should really start taking action on a few of them though, it's happened once or twice already where someone has made one or two of them with great success and I've gotten pissed/depressed that I didn't pursue them before they did.
When it comes down to the personal philosophy, I believe that a life with a focus on longevity and capability for the purpose of helping and providing for those you love (your family and friends) is most important.
I also consider physical activity and education (either through self-learning or something more formal) under the right pretense are highly spiritual experiences and should be maintained.
The point is that I continued fighting for that degree regardless of how many failures I had in the past. I genuinely believe that if you continued, even now, to learn these subjects (even without formal education) you can do great things.
I challenge you to three months of relentless self education. Instead of watching YouTube or browsing socials in your spare time but some very basic projects on your plate then move from there to larger ones.
After this I learned Python and some data science stuffs, got into Flask (which allows for website backends via REST) and MongoDB (database).
If you genuinely apply yourself to learn this kind of stuff and feel confident in you capabilities, I know you can apply it in a way that at the very least will help you feel a bit more fulfilled in your skillset.
> I am cursed with a low IQ, with a low everything. I have lost all hope in myself.
Not a low everything, we are an accumulation of our experiences (both good and bad), what you choose to do with that is up to you. If you are able to recognize your shortcomings you're already better off than 90% of people.
Everyone has their shortcomings, confidence isn't an ignorance of those shortcomings (that's ego) it's joyful acceptance of them in a persistent manner.
I'm not an intelligent person by any means but I am a persistent one. I failed Spanish twice in high school but persisted and got it the third time with a C, in college I failed pre-calc, differential equations, and linear algebra all at least once but continued and eventually passed. For my first Internship I applied to over 180 different companies, only three gave me interviews, the last of which gave me an offer. The first 9 women I asked out said no, after that it got to be around a 50-50 shot as to whether they'd say yes.
Even if you fail at doing the same thing 99% of the time, if you try enough you can get your desired outcome. The thing about failing is that the better you are at it, and the more you do it, the quicker you'll find a way out.
If you legitimately believe that a "low IQ" is holding you back, you are wrong. You can blame the world or people around you all you want, and it might even be true, but at the end of the day the only person out there to improve your circumstances is yourself.
Currently working on implementing a similar feature, where instead of direct interaction it's location based relative to that users recent posts. That way if you don't want to be "found" you don't post and vice-versa.
Use it with Raycast, Claude Code, and GhosTTY