Re:Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
by morkalork on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:41AM
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Google/MS make generic software for businesses and developers. They don't really get involved in specific verticals (aside from obvious ones like cloud, gaming, marketing). Successful start-ups will be the ones taking models from big tech cos and bringing them to the boring verticals those companies have no interest in.
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Then one day Google tweaks their model in an unfortunate way and you fall all the way down that vertical.
Re:Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
by morkalork on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:24AM
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The same can be said of any of their service offerings. You could build a business around something MS/Oracle/Google provides and they could one day decide to deprecate it.
Anything a SaaS platform provides can be replicated in-house. The same can't be said for a bleeding-edge 10 billion dimensional model.
Can you give an example?
A large majority of SaaS businesses can be done for free with an Excel spreadsheet, but many of them are still making millions a year.
Re:Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
by taqticsai on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:42AM
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Interesting. Such as?
Re:Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
by maximus-decimus on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @10:33PM
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YNAB, the budgeting app is a good example. Having it as an online app means you can use it from many computers or a phone, but at its core it's really just a spreadsheet.
Just build a product that is even slightly reliant upon customer service. They won't know how to compete.
Re:Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
by cbreezyyall on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @02:52AM
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This comment isn't getting the recognition it deserves.