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gf000last Wednesday at 7:11 AM2 repliesview on HN

These are businesses with extra-large capital requirements. You ain't replicating them, because you don't have the money, and they can easily strangle you with their money as you start out.

Software is different, you need very very little to start, historically just your own skills and time. Thes latter two may see some changes with LLMs.


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TeodorDyakovlast Wednesday at 11:27 AM

How conveniently you forgot about the most impotant things for a product to make money - marketing and the network effect....

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nllast Thursday at 9:05 AM

This is exactly my point.