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alangibsontoday at 3:29 PM4 repliesview on HN

I got out of software and into physical products a couple of years ago. I wish I could say I was prescient, but honestly it's just so much easier to sell physical items.

Margins are worse, but selling is easier. If you've got a thing you can be sure that someone somewhere will give you money for it.


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gordonharttoday at 4:34 PM

Kind of looks like vibecoding is doing to SaaS what Chinese mass manufacturing did to physical products two decades ago. Only the marketing and distribution matter in a world where it's very easy for others to clone something and sell it at a lower price.

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alex_suzukitoday at 4:18 PM

But… distribution is so much harder?

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Debelitoday at 4:40 PM

Well, you're like then opposite version of me :D I was into physical products and services most of my life, and from recently I'm just trying to create stuff that can be sold digitally :D Still not there, but slowly getting to it.

7777332215today at 3:42 PM

What kind of physical products and what kind of customers?

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