This is a good article and hopefully it served its purpose of generating awareness for the platform but I have to disagree with the core claim of the article.
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.
A related dynamic: even getting attention requires increasingly fantastical and absurd claims. You basically have to lie about what your product is capable of because your competitors are. If you're making an app to find and save recipes, you have to pitch it as an AI chef that will find delicious, customized recipes that will cure your diabetes while also making you last longer in bed. There's so much mania right now that your traction will outpace any public criticism or scrutiny, and you'll get acquired by Amazon for $50M within a couple years. Crazy times.
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.
> "Claude" is a (registered) trademark of Anthropic PBC.
The author is attempting to bait Anthropic by using their registered trademarked product name. This is how it works:
1. Anthropic tells him to change the name, he 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 choice of 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 getting him shut down.
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.
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.
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
The author is attempting to bait Anthropic by using their registered trademarked product name. This is how it works:
1. Anthropic tells him to change the name, he 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 choice of 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 getting him shut down.