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by raverbashing 1173 days ago
Yes, I am aware, and I agree

The value proposition to the sliced pineapple is the time and skill to do it. Sure, it's "cheap" to do it at home (if your time is free and you have a good knife - I pay way less than $8 though ;) )

While I do believe there are startups with good value added, I think a lot of people are just throwing a simple call with very little thought added. And while the service is sellable, your moat is how easy people can duplicate it.

Is your service a product or a feature? If it's a feature OpenAI can just add it to their systems in a day