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And sure, maybe someone will try to copy what you build, but that’s a good problem to have because by then you’re probably somewhat successful.
Big companies are not your worry in most cases. They have so much bureaucracy and internal politics that it's often cheaper for them to buy out the up-and-coming startups than it is to build in-house. Instead, if you achieve success without much of a moat, you will be cloned by one of the "App Store mills". These are companies who employ multiple small teams (think 3-4 people), and each team is charged with cloning o…
Rocket Internet Is one of these copycat business style.
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Don’t worry big companies still can’t copy anything quickly, even with AI. Why? Because before they can ship a single feature, they’ll need to schedule 42 alignment meetings, debate AI-generated slide decks, and log their “strategic pivots” into an AI-curated Jira board. The real moat isn’t just code it’s speed, focus, user trust, and the ability to actually ship. Those are things bloated orgs struggle with, with or…
The real moat is not being forced to use Jira then.
b) give Linear.App a chance - its great
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Teams is still nowhere near Slack's features and usefulness. I wouldn't say it's a direct competitor, it's like store brand vs a mid-luxury item
Nobody really likes Teams, but it does seem to have more features than Slack in terms of integration with the rest of Microsoft's office software ecosystem. It's nice to be able to open up and edit Word/PowerPoint/Excel documents directly, view the Outlook calendar directly, etc. It is also integrated with SharePoint and OneDrive for file storage. Teams had video calls before Slack as well IIRC. Teams, Slack and Disc…
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You’re talking about VC startups. I disagree with the sour mindset, as I don’t feel those games were necessary for my startup, although I admit mine was bootstrapped (0$), and didn’t grow as far as the others, it still made me millionaire, has paid my employees a high-than-average salary and has the potential of adding them a few hundred thousands each. I admit the old market (do web apps to manage records! or notes!…
How do you find users? Organic? SEO is useless as all the projects with any meaningful pagerank are all pointing to each other. Social media advertising is useless; nobody even sees your tweets or posts. Advertising? How do you get a return on CPC? All the big competitors seem to be running negative margins. Also, small volume social media ads tends to attract only bots... Are you operating in a niche? How do you get…
In hist first speech/announcement he said: "...everything is AI now..." - from this day on, Google was dead for customer acquisition.
From now on, every search query with same terms served always an individual page at different times. The good old SEO days were dead, this user-acqui channel died.
Then they increased & enlarged the space for ads at top of page; and these days finally they introduced this AI panel - most people wont scroll anymore on Google.
This is the problem with big concentration of wealth and power. The big tech mega corps can copy your idea easily because they don’t have any budget, they can undercut you or sell at a loss, and they can distribute it to all their current customers with anti competitive bundling. It has happened over and over many times and American antitrust law is useless. The largest corporations must be broken up, taxed heavily,…
If they have at least one tiny step/foot in the door, they are good at upselling nearly everything. And they are continuously buying up other companies and integrating them (somehow questionable very often) and then selling this as new SAP product after replacing the former logo
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I don't care what they told you last year, I didn't say jack shit. I'm saying it now. Cope or pretend it's not happening, I don't care, this is the year.
I just keep hearing all these people that preach this, but I don't see anything substantial (that isn't something stupid or a tutorial they followed from medium) that anyone responds with. e.g. of a meh: give me top 10 HN articles for today and summarize the contents, add tags and build a website. I know AI can do that, but it's not impressive. Not to pick on you, be mean or anything, but your github profile says no…
AI is already more or less ultimately powerful with nearly endless ressources - though, no one built a big software company in the last 3 - 4 years solely with AI to replace one of the behemoths.
The fact that you own a car which could bring you everywhere does not mean that you actually will go eveywhere.
On a conference 2 month ago, one speaker claimed that AI will be so powerful that within 3 years there will be guys who replace microsoft because they have a better coding AI than today.
I do not see this happen
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I don't care what they told you last year, I didn't say jack shit. I'm saying it now. Cope or pretend it's not happening, I don't care, this is the year.
Have you actually had it do anything substantial and then tried to work with the code it produces afterwards? It may "work" but it's a horrific mess. Good luck bug fixing that.
Im working productive with it every day (Claude Opus). If you provide enough context, the code usually works veeeery well on first shot.
(For sure, I do not tell it "build me a facebook", instead Im telling it precisely which single function I want to have, how it should work, what the output should be.
Its just a boon.
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Yes, Opus 4.5 is not business as normal. If you haven't tried it, you really need to, to update your opinion.
I am talking about opus 4.5. It made a complete mess out of my project.
Chunk it into single parts/components/building blocks. Then do each of these a dedicated project/workspace. In each of these workspaces, you put in only the source code relevant for this module. You are working in each project/workspace separately.
Try this