Re:Ask HN: Is the market Tech selloff an opportunity for goo...
by not_your_vase on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:48PM
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Usually, if there is no alternative for something that's universally hated, the reason is the enormous resources needed for the replacement.
Want to make a better search engine than Google and Bing together? Sure, that's easy! Crawling, storing and querying the index - you don't have that money.
Want to create a better browser than Chrome/Firefox? Sure, go for it - just get 2 million work hours.
Want some OpenAI replacement? Get a few thousand GPUs first.
CloudFlare captchas don't let you through? Just build your own wordwide backbone along with a huge CDN network, and off you go.
Want to make a better search engine than Google and Bing together? Sure, that's easy! Crawling, storing and querying the index - you don't have that money.
Want to create a better browser than Chrome/Firefox? Sure, go for it - just get 2 million work hours.
Want some OpenAI replacement? Get a few thousand GPUs first.
CloudFlare captchas don't let you through? Just build your own wordwide backbone along with a huge CDN network, and off you go.
etc.