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Oras • yesterday at 7:25 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

Rapidly? Their 2 years of stealth was replicated in 2 weeks.

I give it to them for creating the hype (good marketing), and for making a useful classifier. Not sure what they would scale rapidly though.


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rsalus • yesterday at 7:33 PM

I feel like half the game now is marketing though, so I can see why they'd be attractive to an investor. Maybe if they scale they can come up with something.

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tiborsaas • yesterday at 8:44 PM

You can replicate any fitness app in no time and you will make close to $0. Brand recognition matters a lot.

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ModernMech • yesterday at 7:34 PM

It’s the classic SV flip. You scale your investors, your executive team, your sales people, hire a bunch of engineering you don’t need, then sell the company. The company’s product doesn’t matter, the company is the product.

clickety_clack • yesterday at 9:24 PM

It’s like openclaw. There was a bunch of technically better ones that came along afterwards, but nobody remembers what any of them were called.

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mococa • yesterday at 7:52 PM

> Their 2 years of stealth was replicated in 2 weeks.

Actually they stolen the idea from a paper.

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brink • yesterday at 7:33 PM

Either the investors know something we don't, or the market is irrational.

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