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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Since you have experience in this, I’d like to hear your thoughts on a common assumption. It goes like this: don’t build
by baxtr 2y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Since you have experience in this, I’d like to hear your thoughts on a common assumption.
It goes like this: don’t build anything that would be feature for a Hyperscalar because ultimately they win.
I guess a lot of it is a question of timing?
- leetharris 2y agoI think it really depends on whether or not you can offer a competitive solution and what your end goals are. Do you want an indie hacker business, do you want a lifestyle business, do you want a big exit, do you want to go public, etc? It is hard to compete with these hyperscalers because they use pseudo anti-competitive tactics that honestly should be illegal. For example, I know some ASR providers have lost deals to GCP or AWS because those providers will basically throw in ASR for free if you sign up for X amount of EC2 or Y amount of S3, services that have absurd margins for the cloud providers. Still, stuff like Supabase, Twilio, etc show there is a market. But it's likely shrinking as consolidation continues, exits slow, and the DOJ turns a blind eye to all of this.
- hackernewds 2y agoCounter argument: Zoom, DocuSign But you do have to be next to amazing at execution
- mst 2y agoI think those are cases of successfully becoming *the* company for the thing in the minds of decision makers before the hyperscalers decide to try and turn your product into a bundleable feature. Which is not to disagree with you, only to "yes, and" to emphasise that it's a fairly narrow path and 'amazing at execution' is necessary but not sufficient.