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The Hacker News Tarpit
- rvz 6mo ago> To be clear - this is not a post about how hard it is to build software. It's a post about how easy it is to build software, and how that easiness fools people into thinking they understand what they're looking at when they see a successful product Recommended reading to vibe coders and read that sentence very carefully. Anyone can clone this orange site very quickly with AI, but what is the point if no-one will use it? If you have no distribution, you have no chance. This now means code is cheap, ideas are cheaper and the competition is now a thousand times fierce. What matters now is knowing what to build to get distribution. That is a social problem rather than a technical one and that is what you should absolutely optimize for. Second is speed of iteration. Third is the data. A plus if it is proprietary data. Very successful companies have all three. Stripe is one of them.
- bediger4000 6mo agoThis reads like a fully fleshed out LinkedInfluencer post. You know the style. It's punchy. Filled with single-sentence paragraphs! The punctuation has some pizzazz. There's an abrupt ending, exhorting you to face your deficiencies, work 25 hours a day to support your wife and children. Anyway, I'm not on a witch hunt, but I think this article was written partly by an "AI" weened on LinkedIn. It makes some passable points, but nothing too earth shaking.