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Re:Muse Spark Open by casualscience on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:22PM (#50107960)
Muse is not sticky at all, it's just OpenClaw wrapped in meta branding. Any company can roll one out
Re:Muse Spark Open by boshalfoshal on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:10PM (#50108736)
I disagree with the claim that its sticky, but this is the wrong response. Reductive and doesn't take into account the obvious things (UX, network effects, barrier to entry to use the product). All 3 of these are much better with Muse than they with are similar products.
Re:Muse Spark Open by casualscience on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:24PM (#50111757)
UX is not a moat, especially in the era of AI software replication. I disagree that there are network effects for MUSE, maybe there will be at some point (e.g. vendors or something sign up for it) but I would love to hear why its better to be on muse when more people use it? Barrier to entry is somewhere they have an advantage, but not more of an advantage than google, or really anyone who has an app installed on your phone already.
Re:Muse Spark Open by MikhailTal on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:43PM (#50108318)
any company can roll instagram(just simple image viewer) or whatsapp(just messaging) out though with the same logic. Does not mean you can compete
Re:Muse Spark Open by casualscience on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:06PM (#50108683)
Social networks have network effects, an ai assistant does not