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Crack on - this is YC! Why are you not already a unicorn?
by gerdesj 1y ago
Crack on - this is YC!
Why are you not already a unicorn?
- lucubratory 1y agoAn LLM wrapper does not have serious revenue potential. Being able to do very impressive things with Claude Code has a pretty strict ceiling on valuation because at any point Anthropic could destroy your business by removing access, incorporating whatever you're doing into their core feature set, etc.
- petesergeant 1y agoHaving worked with some serious pieces of enterprise software, I don't think this is right. Anthropic is not going to perfect multi-vendor integrations, spin up a support team, and solution architect your problems for you. Enterprise software gets into the walls, and can be very hard to displace once deployed. If you build an LLM-wrapper resume parser, once you've got it into your client's workflows, they're going to find it hard to unembed it to replace it with raw Anthropic.
- ffsm8 1y agoBut if you did become a unicorn, It would suddenly become very easy to replace for anthropic, because they're the ones actually providing the sauce and can just replicate your efforts. So your window of opportunity is to be too small for anthropic to notice and get interested. That can't be called unicorn That was the point he was making, at least that's how I understood it
- lucubratory 1y agoShe, but yes.
- ffsm8 1y agohttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog.... :)
- sussmannbaka 1y agoAs it turns out, the VC potential of Mandelbrot and HelloWorld.py are quite limited :o)
- addandsubtract 1y agoBakeries have been in business for thousands of years. Should be pretty easy to sell Mandelbrot everywhere around the world.