> Never trust a product that takes VC funding.

There are almost no startups today that can survive if VC funding did not exist, even more so now that AI and LLMs exists.

Might as well not use any of them if they are funded by VCs or angel investors.

And if not, how should they be funded?

Donations? Not sustainable.

Lalabadie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sometimes I think I exaggerate how far into their own bubble the YC comments are.

vinyl7 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How about by making money like businesses used to do in the olden days

Nope, Most people want services for free and now with vibe coding you can make your own.

Not sustainable for anyone wanting to charge for software.

And when VC services enshittify so that the VC funders can get their money back, the market won’t also respond with vibing their own version?

	▲	colesantiago 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Support and donate regularly to OSS or vibe code your own! Unless of course you're Stripe (which is VC funded) we still need an OSS version of Stripe.