[vitalikpie]

Sorry I'm dumb. had to ask LLM what you mean.

Do you mean

Your moat only matters until you’ve solved a real user need. Once the need is clearly being met, the moat matters less than trust, adoption, and execution.

If yes - I wonder what does it mean for a product.

Do you mean that after need is met (PMF reached) no one can beat: - brand - distribution - support - community?

[gotwaz]

I said your needs. Think about why you are doing what you are doing. And at what point that need is met. So if your need is financial then you say my need is to recover my costs(time you put in * hourly rate+hardware costs+energy costs etc etc) + some profit. Once you have achieved that the moat becomes less important right? If the need is not financial but this project is going to look good on my resume and get me more interesting work, then the moment you do get a better job the moat doesnt matter. So I was encouraging you to think about why you do what you do. Cuz after you feel like you have meet your own needs moats matter less.

[vitalikpie]

That's a great point!

For me it's a combination of two.

Personal validation - "can I build something people love?"

And financial - "can I build a successful company around it?"

So this way there is no event after which the project becomes less relevant for me. It's a process, and I expect it to be along process.

That's the reason I can't commit to open-sourcing my product at some point in time.

However at the same time there are pretty successful companies that have a trust of being "secure and privacy first": - Apple - Telegram

While at the same time there are pretty good counter examples: - PostHog - Signal