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> There's a difference between social networks, where a network effect is needed Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the ver

> There's a difference between social networks, where a network effect is needed Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the very least function but have no users? > Many of today's 'AI startups' are essentially just a landing page with a few hundred lines of code generated by GPT-4 to connect with the OpenAI API This is a strawman. Most of the AI startups that have raised significant money are not that.

lossolo 3y ago
> Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the very least function but have no users? Because you are using social network to connect/interact with other people? If I'm making a simple AI tool powered by LLM then I don't need other users to make it useful for you. > This is a strawman. Most of the AI startups that have raised significant money are not that. It's not a straw man argument if adding a condition to your statement is necessary to refute it. In fact, having to do so is essentially the definition of a straw man.
Zak 3y ago
> Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the very least function but have no users? There are. When Reddit switched from Lisp to Python, a number of Lisp users had negative things to say about that, and made their own clones over short time intervals to show just how superior Lisp is. There are a bunch of open source clones now: https://github.com/topics/reddit-clone https://github.com/topics/reddit-clone Twitter is even more trivial to clone, and this has more results: https://github.com/topics/twitter-clone https://github.com/topics/twitter-clone I'm not going to track down all the attempts to commercialize clones of either that shut down after a month, but they're out there.