It is a not-that-obscure secret that most posts on Moltbook, particularly the "Viral™" ones, are written by a human.

Does Mark not know this?

I know there's a big advantage in capturing the market early, but in this case Moltbook hasn't captured any of it ...

Weird. With Meta's backing it is going to be successful anyway, but this is something they could have developed in-house in like a weekend.

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heathrow83829 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sure they could develop it in a weekend, so could anyone else. but once a product has the initial userbase, that's not something a competitor can just copy. user acquision is the limiting factor to success, not writing code.

	▲	moralestapia 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I specifically mentioned that in my comment.

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add-sub-mul-div 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When a company gets this big it no longer nurtures the freedom, independence, or ambition to innovate. They grow structures to stifle it.

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px43 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think you understand why moltbook is popular. It has incredible utility for those who are actually using it every day.

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Skidaddle 5 hours ago | parent [-]

What is that utility? (honest question)

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px43 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's an extremely active community of humans using agents as proxies to explore various concepts. I get a lot of value out of it, and apparently others do as well. Hacker News users have this weird tendency to outright dismiss anything that doesn't cater to their needs specifically.

I think it's pretty obvious that if there was nothing valuable there, no one would be using it.

	▲	Skidaddle 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Can you share some of your favorite examples? Whenever I take a look at the hot/top posts, they’re just… not interesting to me
	▲	Bnjoroge 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		what are some usecases i should try?

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rvz 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hype.