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Likemake-me-a-billionaire
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A parody app that responds to over-ambitious, outcome-oriented prompts by calmly reframing them into skill- and process-oriented next steps.
The joke is that this is what actually gives you a non-zero chance of extreme success over decades.
- You type a big, vague goal ("make me a social network for college students")
- The app uses ChatGPT to identify the category error (outcome vs. process)
- It reframes toward something smaller, concrete, and skill-building
- It emphasizes the hard truth: following this redirected path gives a non-zero but difficult chance of success over ~40 years
- Backend: Hono on Val Town
- Frontend: React with twind (Tailwind-in-JS)
- AI: OpenAI GPT-4o-mini
- Tone: Dry, Paul Graham–ish, intellectually honest