alt Hacker News> This was the same before, if you had a novel idea and make a product out of it others follow.
You've almost captured the full picture of it.
If you have a great idea, it's not going to be self-evidently enough of a great idea until you've proved it can make money. That's the hard part which comes at great personal, professional and financial risk.
Algorithms are cheap. Sure, they could use your LLM history to figure out what you did. Or the LLM could just reason it out. It could save them some work, sure.
But again - the hard part is not cloning the product, it's stealing your customers. People don't seem to be focused on the hard parts.
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> But again - the hard part is not cloning the product, it's stealing your customers.
Yes. A Red Hat, a Microsoft -- these companies have processes, organizational structure, politics, friction, etc. They might like your products, but replicating them might not be easy for reasons that have nothing to do with how easy it is given the freedom to do it. Small shops with vision might well have a bright future, for a while, maybe.
Yeah, and the big guys can't steal your customers. What a crazy idea.
> But again - the hard part is not cloning the product, it's stealing your customers. People don't seem to be focused on the hard parts.
Big companies seem to be bad at innovating but really, really good at enterprise sales.
I don't think the risk is that they copy your app.
The risk is that they make the category a built-in feature in something people already use. At that point, copying the product and taking the customers start to look like the same problem.