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The "worst" part of this comment, is that it's not even exaggeration. In the last 6 months, my competition increased 5x. People that didn't have the skills to
by maipen 4mo ago
The "worst" part of this comment, is that it's not even exaggeration.
In the last 6 months, my competition increased 5x. People that didn't have the skills to compete, now do. My margins will keep shrinking while hardware and servers gets more expensive.
It's a fucking miserable future for us software people.
Architecting and "good taste" won't be good enough to put food on the table next year...
- sajithdilshan 4mo ago[flagged]
- hijodelsol 4mo agoWhile I understand both of your perspectives, please think about how frustrating it can be to have poured years into building a product genuinely solving a problem and building a relationship with clients only for a dozens AI copy cats to come in. Even if your product is clearly better, the SEO slop alone will raise your marketing cost, price cutting will affect you as not all clients are able to tell quality before purchase or will know of your project, etc. And in the end, everyone is worse of. We get less for the products we build. Customers in many cases get a worse solution. And the AI copy cats multiply until none of them can make a living from it.
- sajithdilshan 4mo agoIf your product is really good, then people will choose it over AI copy cats. If that’s not the case then it’s time to take a really hard look at your product and see if that’s really as good as you think
- satvikpendem 4mo agoExactly. People on a forum dedicated to a VC should know that disruption happens everywhere, AI just makes it easier but it's been happening for a long time, that is the nature of startups in general.
- kelnos 4mo agoThat's a naive view of things. People don't have perfect information about the world around them. They can only go on what limited information filters to them. AI copycats will by their very nature be better at marketing and pushing information into people's faces. It's bad information, but how are customers supposed to know that?
- bigyabai 4mo ago> And in the end, everyone is worse of. I don't know, it really depends on the product. If we were all still paying for proprietary UNIX in the current year, then it's likely that these startups would never exist in the first place. Sometimes a SAAS has to admit that it's not providing real value before actual innovation becomes the status quo. I don't weep many tears for dying businesses because nobody lives forever.
- ComplexSystems 4mo agoThe guy is genuinely worried for his future. I see nothing shameful or narcissistic about that, and I don't think it makes sense for you to wish him any harm.
- sajithdilshan 4mo ago[flagged]
- akudha 4mo agoHe/She is literally talking putting food on the table and yet you are interpreting it as superiority complex. I am not sure if we are even reading the same comment here. Also, competition in itself not bad. It does mess people's livelihoods when competition is sudden and massive - he/she mentioned 5x increase in competition in 6 months. That is too much, too fast, it is not easy navigating/surviving it
- sajithdilshan 4mo ago[flagged]
- viccis 4mo agoMost people work to survive, not for the sheer joy of delivering value to company stakeholders.
- sajithdilshan 4mo agothen work on something else.
- viccis 4mo agoHow about no
- sajithdilshan 4mo ago
- kelnos 4mo agoPerson who lacks empathy accuses another of being a narcissist...
- sajithdilshan 4mo agoI’m not empathising with narcissists
- ChadNauseam 4mo agoIt might be miserable for you, but it sounds great for your customers. I am genuinely sympathetic though.
- downrightmike 4mo agoNow we have 100 fly by night vendors! Awesome!
- devsda 4mo agoA healthy competition is always good for the customer but I have my doubts on the healthy part. A flood of fly by night products with low effort mess is going to lower the trust in genuine indie development products and could drive users towards established names in the industry. In some way it's like the new PR flood on github. On the surface more PRs looks like a positive thing but it had unintended consequences.
- 1123581321 4mo agoNew signals of trustworthiness will emerge (are already emerging.) More shots at the big names is not going to entrench them, even if most of those shots don't go anywhere. The big names also need to stay competitive against internally developed solutions inside what would have been their bread-and-butter enterprise customers, so they have to compete on features and quality like indies.
- 4mo ago
- 2143 4mo ago> People that didn't have the skills to compete, now do. Come on now, you can’t be mad that people acquired the skills. Realize that whatever your frustration is, those people who acquired the skills are probably not the root cause of whatever is currently going on, in the bigger picture sense. Maybe a lot of them can now put food on their table. I sincerely hope things work out for you.