[rvz]

> 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.