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Marketing and brand are still the most important, though I personally hope for a world where business is more indie and less winner take all You can see the fi
by verdverm 9mo ago
Marketing and brand are still the most important, though I personally hope for a world where business is more indie and less winner take all
You can see the first waves of this trend in HN new.
- andersmurphy 9mo agoWouldn't the incumbents with their fantastic distribution channels, brand, lockin, marketing, capital and own models just wipe the floor with everyone as talent no longer matters?
- groundtruthdev 9mo agoShort answer no. In a world where AI reliably generates software, companies will bypass SaaS vendors, even the large ones, and go straight to the best LLM providers for tailored solutions. Brand, lock-in, and capital won’t save traditional vendors.
- andersmurphy 9mo agoI'm not talking about the saas companies. I'm talking about the meta/google/apple/openAI/anthropic etc. They can clone any decent business overnight now, cheaper and faster than you can. That's the point they win, we all lose.
- verdverm 9mo agoOnly if you and everyone else decide to use theirs Work on alternatives, be indie too