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by dennisy 57 days ago
I feel for the startups sweating each one of these frontier lab releases.

How many more are thinking “am I next?”
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gitmagic 57 days ago
Yeah, I’m happy I gave up, it’s just not possible to compete and the constant stress to try to keep up is not worth it.

(I built https://nelly.is as a solo founder without funding)

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weird-eye-issue 56 days ago
The trick is niching down, this has always been the trick.
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dennisy 54 days ago
I think this used to be the trick, but now with AI it is such a general purpose technology I am not sure that makes sense. Users can “niche down” in a generic app, using prompts and configs.
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weird-eye-issue 51 days ago
It's still the trick. I've made millions per year since 2023 niching down into a small slice within the marketing industry with an AI product
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