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bewal416 7 hours ago

Something I'm really good at is ending my articles with half-baked ideas :) so thank you for challenging it

Regarding "entities", totally understand. I like to write in ways that my mom would understand- not the HN community. In fact, I have a post called "Everything is a Spreadsheet", where I explicitly defined that Entity<->Noun relationship. Should have linked it!

Back to the Saaspocalypse... my startup is reckoning with this like all others. My next blog post will be titled "What's Preventing Me from Building Your App in a Weekend?". The ultimate "what's your moat" question. I think every SaaS should be forced to answer this on their marketing site. Thinking aloud, I'm considering good answers companies can say to this question... I think a perfectly legitimate answer is still "our prompts are better than your prompts". There are some companies where I simply believe the founders/engineers when they say they understand the problem better than I, because they've explored it more deeply. This is kinda what I was hinting at at the end... softwares that go mega-vertical in one or two nouns accrue more subject matter expertise than I ever will. Thus, that gives me more reason to trust their infrastructure, their configurations, and their prompts. This is not new but rather an extension of what created the SaaS economy in the first place.

I will definitely check out your profile- thank you for the thoughtful reply!

namanyayg 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh yeah the SaaS-pocalypse is so new and there are so many different ways to try and understand and tackle it. Scary but exciting times!

philipallstar 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The ultimate "what's your moat" question

One effective moat might be "Your LLM has never been trained on our closed source codebase."