问 HN:如果 24 小时内能用 5000 欧元拿到一个功能原型,你会买吗?
1 分•作者: altras•6 个月前
大家好,
我目前正在验证一种服务模式,我们充当“影子工程团队”,以大约 5000 欧元(固定费用)的价格在 24 小时内交付功能齐全的原型。
我们针对的具体问题是工程能力。
我接触过的每一位创始人或产品负责人都有 5-10 个高潜力想法的积压,但目前都停滞不前。他们无法构建这些想法,因为他们的核心工程团队忙于维护、技术债务或主要路线图。他们真的“没有精力”去测试任何新东西。当他们尝试使用 replit/lovable 时,最终会变得一团糟,并且在几个周期后就被淹没。
这就是我卡住的地方,我很想听听你们的诚实看法:
我观察了当前的“AI 编码”领域,看到了像 Fiverr AI 编码服务这样的市场。
你可以找到人们提供以 500-1000 美元的价格构建 AI 应用的服务。
我真正的问题是:为什么这些廉价服务没有爆发式增长?
考虑到 Cursor、replit 等工具的功能,你会认为这些市场会成为绕过内部工程瓶颈的默认解决方案,但事实并非如此。
* 是管理开销的问题吗?(你没有时间管理一个随机的自由职业者?)
* 是质量/安全方面的担忧吗?(将专有想法放入廉价的零工经济服务中?)
* 还是他们根本不理解业务逻辑?
核心问题:如果你手头有一堆无法构建的想法,那么以 5000 欧元的价格在 24 小时内获得“有保证的、专业级的”成果,是否是绕过内部瓶颈的必然选择?或者你仍然会尝试用更便宜的自由职业者/内部资源来凑合?
我试图弄清楚价值在于代码(很便宜)还是可靠性/速度(似乎很少见)。
感谢大家的反馈。
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Hi HN, I’m currently validating a service model where we act as a "shadow engineering team" to deliver fully functional prototypes in 24 hours for a flat fee of around €5k.<p>The specific problem we are targeting is Engineering Capacity.<p>Every founder or product lead I talk to has a backlog of 5-10 high-potential ideas that are currently dead in the water. They can't build them because their core engineering team is buried in maintenance, technical debt, or the main roadmap. They literally "don't have the cycles" to test anything new. And when they try with replit/lovable they end with a lot of slop and get swamped after a couple of cycles.<p>Here is where I am stuck, and I’d love your honest take:<p>I look at the current landscape of "AI Coding" and see marketplaces like Fiverr AI Coding Services<p>You can find people offering to build AI apps for $500–$1,000.<p>My genuine question is: Why aren't these cheap services exploding?<p>With the capabilities of tools like Cursor, replit you’d think these marketplaces would be the default solution for bypassing internal engineering bottlenecks, but they aren't.<p>- Is it the management overhead? (You don't have time to manage a random freelancer?)
- Is it a quality/security fear? (Putting proprietary ideas into a cheap gig economy service?)
- Is it simply that they don't understand business logic?<p>The Core Question: If you are sitting on a backlog of ideas you can't build, is a €5k price point for a "guaranteed, professional-grade" outcome in 24h a no-brainer to bypass your internal bottleneck? Or would you still try to hack it together with cheaper freelancers/internal resources?<p>I’m trying to figure out if the value is in the code (which is cheap) or the reliability/speed (which seems rare).<p>Appreciate the feedback.