on @lovable_dev , monetization, and the vibe coder economy
| these are all just notes from a 30-minute conversation i had with somebody. a fun little exercise, as you will see.
when people ask me what a hot take is, here's mine: more agent tools and ai tools should be pricing on outcomes... See more
Why build on Discord when you know with near certainty that within a few years you’ll have to move to the next hot platform? Or worse, get kicked off as soon as you become powerful, as happened to WallStreetBets. I’d rather be early on the platform aiming to be the platform-to-end-all-platforms—where the probability of mass adoption is unclear but... See more
In the Web2 era, platforms like Twitter and Facebook ran powerful but temporary versions of the “commoditize the complement” strategy early in their growth phase. By giving away their products and APIs for free, the platforms were able to attract invaluable social graphs and user data, which in turn helped attract an ecosystem of third-party... See more
love my friend @signulll who is making a great, albeit orthogonal, point:
- yes putting a model in front of proprietary data is very smart and makes companies like Open Evidence enormously valuable vs ChatGPT which simply doesn’t have the data
- yes this potentially deepens OpenAIs moat if they capture the... See more