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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Article See new posts Conversation Sid @sidrmsh The Only Thing That Survives 63 184 1.2K 508K I watched a company raise $4M, ship a beautiful product, get written up in TechCrunch, and die in eleven months. Not because the founders were dumb, they were sharp, the product worked, users liked it. The problem was simpler and more brutal than any of that: three teams built the same thing within six weeks of their launch, and one of them was free. That was 2024, and in categories where differentiation is thin and distribution is weak, it’s gotten meaningfully worse since then. The distance between “idea” and “functional product” has collapsed to almost nothing. What used to take a team of eight engineers four months can now be prototyped by one person over a weekend, which is genuinely wonderful if you’re a builder and terrifying if your entire business *is* the build. Most businesses being started right now are, in fac

I watched a company raise $4M, ship a beautiful product, get written up in TechCrunch, and die in eleven months. Not because the founders were dumb, they were sharp, the product worked, users liked it. The problem was simpler and more brutal than any of that: three teams built the same thing within six weeks of their launch, and one of them was free. That was 2024, and in categories where differentiation is thin and distribution is weak, it’s gotten meaningfully worse since then. The distance between “idea” and “functional product” has collapsed to almost nothing. What used to take a team…

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