Danny Postma
person on 4 shows · 24 statements across 5 episodes · said 15 times in 7 episodes since 2023
the Startup Ideas Podcast 14 
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Postma's programmatic AI tattoo directory hit $10K MRR before being sold
“And this is, for example, we did it with a tattoo. And I think we hit like 10,000 MRR before I sold it because I was focusing on another startup.”
Postma argues entering an AI tool category a year late guarantees failure
“I don't think you can, if it comes to that AI stuff, I don't think you can come in a year later and try to merge your way into it. It's probably too late with those kinds of tools.”
Postma predicts the overall AI startup gold rush will end by 2026
“Cause in two years, it's not going to be, the gold rush is going to be over. I think it's going to be too late in that sense.”
Postma is migrating all his Python AI workflows to ComfyUI
“I'm now rebuilding all my Python stuff to Comfy UI because it's so much easier to work with.”
Postma predicts ComfyUI will become the next massive wave in AI tooling
“I think in the next few months, this is going to be huge. I think a lot of people are going to move to comfy UI. There's a lot of tools being built now that allow you to really easily work with it. I think this is going to be the next kind of wave in AI right …”
Danny Postma built an AI copywriting company by directly emailing OpenAI's CEO
“He built and sold a company around AI written marketing copy, but the way he got early access is he emailed the CEO, right?”
Reimer: Consumer AI products suffer high churn and low retained revenue
“Yeah, you look at some of these, some of the, like, indie hackers right now, indie makers who are selling into consumer space, you know, your Peter Levels, Danny Postma, like, doing the AI headshots type of stuff, and it's fascinating to watch their journeys, …”
Postma: Built Deep Agency prototype in 24 hours after viral tweet
“My product wasn't ready yet. Deep agency, the tweet went absolutely viral. So within 24 hours, I had to come up with something to put live because otherwise there wasn't a website online.”
Postma: AI fashion modeling needs industry domain expertise, not better models
“So the technology is there at the moment, I believe it's up to a company that understands the fashion industry to take it to the other level.”
Postma: Small clothing brands are primary users of AI models
“So I believe this is from what I've seen talking to customers, people, the number one question in my life chat is from mom and pop shops with close clothing brands who do not have the funds to hire models, to put on clothing for the web shops, who I think prob…”
Postma: Lensa destroyed the AI profile picture market
“So yeah, Lensa basically killed the whole market after they went live.”
Postma: Social media will integrate AI clothing try-ons within years
“And I wouldn't be surprised if any social media is going to do this soon, because Instagram already has photos of your face, right? They could already train a model on your face in that kind of sense. And you could put the clothing on it that they put in their…”
Postma: Uses ChatGPT to summarize academic machine learning literature
“Also for me, I'm dabbling in all the white papers. I don't have an academic background, so I'm using ChatGPT a lot to summarize those things and understanding it mostly.”
Postma: Lensa matched my startup's total lifetime revenue in one hour
“Seeing Lenza swoop in one month after we actually launched this already and just did our revenue in one hour or something.”
Postma: HeadshotPro stacks 15 distinct AI models to build a product moat
“What I'm doing with HeadShield is basically it's 15 different AI models stacked on top of each other in like a sequence of doing things together.”
Postma Built AI Model Site in One Afternoon
“Building the product, like this product I did in, I think a morning, one afternoon, but it's basically because I already built a tech before it with profile picture.ai.”
Postma Launches Mini-Products as Marketing Channels Instead of Ads
“What I like to do is I like to create products like launch mini products as a marketing.”
Postma: a16z and Sequoia Held Funding Talks for Headlime in 2021
“Two years ago, I had talks with Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, stuff like that.”
Postma: OpenAI confirmed Headlime was the first live product on its API
“I was one of the first to build a product like that and go live with it. I got a screenshot from OpenAI saying I'm the first developer to actually go live with a product.”
Postma: Headlime Revenue Doubled Every Two to Three Weeks Post-Launch
“It went, like, it doubled in revenue every two, three weeks. Hit a shit ton of revenue in three months.”
Postma: ProfilePicture.ai Sales Grew 10x After Competitor Lensa Launched
“Like for Lanza, for example, like I got. 10 times more sales after they launched a product because suddenly people like most of the people, they were suddenly searching for like AI avatar. Right. But some people, they didn't use the word AI avatar. They used A…”
Postma: StockAI Reached Just 0.004% Paid Conversion Before Being Shut Down
“Though the conversion rate to a paid product was like zero point zero zero, four percent. And it's not cheap to run AI models, man. So if you want to keep this up, I had to kill it.”
Postma: Tattoo artists will adopt AI as an inspiration and design tool
“Then on the other side, I think there's gonna be a lot of artists who are gonna use it as an inspiration source. They're gonna generate, like, there's gonna be a customer. They can just suddenly generate like a hundred options instead of just one or two, show …”
Postma: Target Keywords Under 10 Difficulty to Launch Automated Side Businesses
“Keep on typing in keywords of things that you might be interested in until you find a collection of keywords that has a keyword difficulty under 10, which means you should be able to go to the first page of Google. Build a product around that, that could be au…”