Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it
claudefolio.com
claudefolio.com
Distribution was always the hardest part in building a business, sure today it’s easier to vibe code something in a day or two but there is a reason that for a long time now the standard advice to technical founders has been to not build before you have conviction on the product market fit.
And product market fit means that you have also figured out how to get to the market, aka distribution.
It's a lot easier to think about it and discuss it with others when the product is tangible instead of just an idea. Biggest challenges then are being able to still diverge (broaden/pivot the product idea) and killing functionality that doesn't work out afterall.
The author is attempting to bait Anthropic by using their registered trademarked product name to send a cease and desist for attention. This is how it works:
1. Anthropic sends the cease and desist and tells him to change the (domain) name. The author does it quickly.
2. The author then in another blog post says he got so much attention, Anthropic tried to shut him down.
3. Everyone falls for it and the author relaunches with the new project / domain name + with more attention.
The domain similarity and layout looks like a setup for that purpose for manufactured drama and attention so that he can make another post crying wolf about Anthropic shutting him down.
F500/large enterprise buyers are getting questionnaire-fatigue from endless internal AI security, compliance, and legal reviews that they actively avoid products who market "AI" as their primary feature.
The rules of product market fit and go-to-market fit remain the same. Customers will always buy the product, AI or not, that both solves their problem and is priced/marketed in a way that makes it possible to purchase.
Drill into this. Really optimize and test. The more I learn about marketing, the more I recognize that paid ads can and do work, but you must really persist with them.
Learned a lot from Alex Hormozi, Allan Dib, and Seth Godin. Start there.
the big platforms are sort of tolerated because you can't really escape them, not because people like them
another small one? nah, thank you, I have plenty of my own useless projects to look after
Are there other people who find software this way? I've heard of Product Hunt, but never used it.
Anyone else’s slop detector go off on this sentence? Or am I losing it?
If the author doesn’t have the time or care to write it, why should have the time or care to read it?
I'm not saying it's AI. But founder build a platform around this issue and then discovered that this issue is hard?
If it's not an AI-slop, it still shows a sloppy reasoning.
He claims anyone can build what he build, and furthermore that he doesn't know how to actually solve the outreach problem. So essentially he did nothing and achieved nothing and instead only moving on, he decides to double down.
Site menu doesn't work, half of pages are missing, I tried to learn what his plans are moving forward, and couldn't find anything.
Even with AI, if you want to sell people on the idea that you personally can make a site, you should present a site that works.
If you claim that there is a solution, you should present an evidence.
It's not enough to say "everyone can do it with AI". I wouldn't trust a site like that not to leak my info.
Even if it's not AI, it still sloppy. I understand if it was a blog rant, but it's not.