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ratsimihahyesterday at 10:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

This game is getting so hard. Everyone can now spam build like Pieter Levels and Marc Lou did years ago, so solo bootstrapping’s got way harder it feels.

I’ve taken a break from building to try to find an audience, a real problem, and real users before building anything anymore.


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CuriouslyCtoday at 12:12 AM

This is basically the situation.

If you don't have an audience don't bother to build anything for anyone else, it literally doesn't matter how good it is or how much people need it, they'll never see it unless you directly spam them.

If you're a 10x builder with 0 followers on socials, sorry to say but you can get cucked by a noob with claude code and a big audience.

operatingthetanyesterday at 11:01 PM

>a real problem

I think this is the issue with the bulk of the saas spammers I see on reddit or whatever. They are just duplicating existing things that don't have a welcoming market anymore.