99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 – Here's Why
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99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 – Here's Why
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#2Openai owns the intelligence until it doesnt, and the open source model is good enough
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#3> And they’re charging 50–100/month to do what anyone could replicate for pennies. It’s not just overpriced — it’s dishonest. The entire business model relies on the user not knowing how simple it really is.
But this is general SaaS model. Wrap thing that are being done by lower level software such as FFmpeg and expose them in a nice GUI ready for use by people who are not technical.
So what can change in the example above is the amount of markup going down, not the SaaS service going away entirely.
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#4Rant incoming. I know it's bad form to critique anything but the content... but I wish the story wasn't padded with those bland GenAI eyesores of an image. It's a dumb kneejerk reaction I observe in myself, but the presence of generated graphics anywhere immediately turn me off.
GenAI padded blog post? Guess your content isn't interesting enough. GenAI album cover? Artist must be equally lazy at making music. GenAI graphics on some flyer someone hands me? Please, could have just slapped nothing but text on there & let your content, whatever it is, do the talking.
I know it's there to "make things pop" or whatever but I'm so put off by the ubiquitous blandness, the samey high contrasts, subtle artifacts... Milking peoples' attention is the new smoking, or at least it should be, IMO. Especially if it's done in the most aggravatingly bland style, that of the GenAI image generator.
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#5What does this guy look at on Instagram to get a feed like that?
It sounds like he sees what he does because that is all he looks for.
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#7> And they’re charging 50–100/month to do what anyone could replicate for pennies. It’s not just overpriced — it’s dishonest. The entire business model relies on the user not knowing how simple it really is. But this is general SaaS model. Wrap thing that are being done by lower level software such as FFmpeg and expose them in a nice GUI ready for use by people who are not technical. So what can change in the example…
If vibe coding works well enough, maybe the entire saas industry can be disrupted out of existence.
We'll replace bland, uninspired, rent-seeking but convenient ffmpeg-as-a-service SaaS tools at a 100x markup by automatically generated, vibe coded tools you can let an AI produce and host in some centralized cloud location at a 10x markup. Thus advancing the inexorable process of disintermediation by technology, turning everyone into a consumer and cutting out middle men everywhere.
Until it's only you and Jensen Huang sitting on top of a pile of your cash, shitting out NVIDIA cards like the sandworms in Dune shit out Spice.
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#8We might well be at the cusp of a huge bubble caused by investor hubris, but this article hasn’t convinced me.
The difference between the stated podcast app and the dot com bubble is that one is making serious revenue at almost 100% profit, whereas one did not even have a revenue model.
Also I think everyone knows at this point that foundation models are a commodity and not a particularly profitable business.
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#9Rant incoming. I know it's bad form to critique anything but the content... but I wish the story wasn't padded with those bland GenAI eyesores of an image. It's a dumb kneejerk reaction I observe in myself, but the presence of generated graphics anywhere immediately turn me off. GenAI padded blog post? Guess your content isn't interesting enough. GenAI album cover? Artist must be equally lazy at making music. GenAI g…
Pretty clear to me the article text itself was largely LLM generated as well. Incredibly repetitive and built on the same basic points over and over. List-heavy. There is a good, if not particularly insightful, article idea here, but this is a very poor version of it.
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#10What does this guy look at on Instagram to get a feed like that? It sounds like he sees what he does because that is all he looks for.
Yeah, folks don’t realize they are telling on themselves when they complain about the content of their Insta or TikTok feeds.