Imagine cutting down the amount of work by 59%... or 88% In many cases you can create a 100% entire product out of pre-fab parts and no one would know.
Stripe Offered innovative “instant” merchant accounts to users. In reality, founders manually signed them up for traditional merchant accounts behind the scenes.
But my product is technical... One YC company offered an enterprise API. When API was called, it emailed the founders. They then did the work manually, and sent back the result “asynchronously.”