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You can replace this with "container" and "docker", and it turned out exactly or similar to how you predict. However, there is nothing with a big moat that Hugg
by bakuninsbart 3y ago
You can replace this with "container" and "docker", and it turned out exactly or similar to how you predict. However, there is nothing with a big moat that Huggingface is offering. If they overeshittify, competitors will rise up.
- pradn 3y agoLate in the "enshittification cycle", competitors do rise, but they're usually under-resourced. So you get a overly-monetized primary product and a bunch of "never quite there" competitors. That's overall worse than at the primary product's "free beer" phase.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoThe most likely successful entrants I can imagine are big tech. They’ll either build or buy the best competitor. And they all already have data centers ready to go
- foooorsyth 3y ago>there is nothing with a big moat that Huggingface is offering There are network effects in play here. They have a big moat purely because of their large user base.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoSimilar to GitHub which I imagine they want to emulate. Sure there are other public code repositories but most people find GitHub good enough to not bother looking at options