I do think a lot of startups, especially on HN, are in for a reckoning that your new vibecoded product/service or one with an AI feature or two added will survive. Everything you do is going to feed the model, that's the training data now. That's why Claude is so cheap for what it does.
You cannot prompt Claude better than your customer can. There is no realistic moat there. You will not survive.
Steve Jobs' product couldn't be trivially cloned, fast, with a cheap AI subscription available to any one of the billions of people on the planet
A well designed, well built physical product has a far higher barrier to entry
Even if your customers won't do it, there are endless people who are willing to compete with you if they see you making any money
tapoxi · · focus · HN ↗
You cannot prompt Claude better than your customer can. There is no realistic moat there. You will not survive.
bob1029 · · focus · HN ↗
Steve Jobs built an empire around the idea that the customer is generally terrible at specifying a particular solution.
tripleee · · focus · HN ↗
A well designed, well built physical product has a far higher barrier to entry
Even if your customers won't do it, there are endless people who are willing to compete with you if they see you making any money