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Looking at the list, I feel timing makes a big difference*. You need to be early enough that people think you are a bit crazy, but not too early that the tech isn't there or even early adopters are not ready. Openclaw for example could have been built in 2023, but it did well in 2026. I don't think 2023 was ready for it :-) * Modulo survivor bias, execution, funding, brilliant fouders, great advisors, pure luck etc.*
This website offers a very venture capital take on ideas. They present it as if the single determining factor if an idea was great is the valuation at which it was sold. I don’t really understand why they think that should nullify valid criticism about the early beta versions of software that turned out popular later. Also, just because a company has a lot of revenue that doesn’t automatically make it a successful co…
This looks like an underhanded comment about Openclaw. Tbf. I might be exactly that kinda person the site is referring to, but I have a really hard time seeing this thing as any more than one of those blips on the radar that gets forgotten about quickly again, e.g. more clubhouse (remember that?) and less dropbox.
It's already proven to not be just a blip on the radar. Even if everyone forgets about it today. He got 221000 (as of today) GitHub stars, motivated thousands of projects, and immediately some of the largest companies on the planet attempted to hire him. And he settled on a job with the most popular AI company. The guy who invented the term "vibe coding" declared that tools like his were a new category above LLM agen…
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I tried kagi started years ago. It had some really interesting and deep results when I was planning my wedding but failed elsewhere. I should try it again.
With the same spouse or ...? Surely your criteria for a life partner extend beyond the desire to test search engines? (Sorry)
The funny thing is a lot of the criticism of Dropbox ended up being true. Dropbox wasn’t a massive money generator, and every tech company replicated it as a value add to their existing ecosystem rather than being much of a product itself.
> Dropbox wasn’t a massive money generator Depends on who you ask. I guess Drew, who posted it here, may beg to differ.
Some of those comments are completely fair: > Dropbox: I think competitors can duplicate Dropbox’s nice front end That’s exactly what happened. > Bitcoin: “Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.” This is still true even now > DDG: “I can’t ever see anyone saying ‘just duckduckgo it.’ The name just sounds silly. It makes me think…