does people build using javascrapt or python or java programming language have a defensible moat since everyone can use that launage and immiate your ui/ux ideas.
Your technical moat is the complexity, quality and breadth of your solution; everything can be copied but the question is the effort. It is often just simpler to just buy you out vs building; especially if it's not only complex, good quality and has a client base. See also my other reply to you; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40283601
The OP question was about LLM based companies using OpenAI api's. Most (almost all) of these are thin wrappers with some prompting; most of the ones introduced here on HN or Reddit, I can outperform in minutes. I try them all to see if someone is doing something interesting, but 99% are not, they just took some SaaS starter and added AI in there and threw it on social media. Even the ones that went somewhat further are still just doing straight forward things that can be replaced trivially inside the OpenAI playground. That's no moat at all. It looks flashy but...
anonzzzies|1 year ago
The OP question was about LLM based companies using OpenAI api's. Most (almost all) of these are thin wrappers with some prompting; most of the ones introduced here on HN or Reddit, I can outperform in minutes. I try them all to see if someone is doing something interesting, but 99% are not, they just took some SaaS starter and added AI in there and threw it on social media. Even the ones that went somewhat further are still just doing straight forward things that can be replaced trivially inside the OpenAI playground. That's no moat at all. It looks flashy but...