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Building a Product That Keeps Getting Compressed

5 October 2026 · 20 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 5 blog views

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If models get better but your business gets worse, that’s a sign you’re building a temporary solution. Take a look at a recent OpenAI project for law firms - it crushed so many startups that were built around that space.

With KidTeller, I’m trying to do the opposite (and, honestly, before OpenAI didn’t come for me 😅).

Every few weeks, I revisit the whole process:

  • Story generation
  • Character consistency
  • Illustrations
  • Validations
  • Book layout
  • Customer support
  • Printing

I remember the first version, which was mostly manual - but now the app is almost autonomous. Recently, with new models and improvements to Vision, you can pre-validate so many glitches during the book generation.

Basically, I do this (and that part is also automated with a separate agent):

  • What can I remove?
  • What can be automated?
  • What can the model do now that used to require my intervention 3 months ago?

With agents, it’s easy to revise things - like I said earlier, the code became something disposable. You can throw it away and replace it with new workflows.

So that means the product shouldn’t be "finished". It’s continuously being compressed?!

Building a Product That Keeps Getting Compressed

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