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Re:Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After ... by vlucas on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:15PM (#50383152)
It's not trivial to change your entire business. Cloudflare is B2B focusing on enterprise sales. These app builder companies are basically B2C and lower end B2B.
Re:Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After ... by estearum on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:16PM (#50383909)
By this logic every single company on the planet would be a single-product company. The reality is that companies expand their offerings all the time – despite the cost, complexity, and risk of doing so.

A great time to expand your offerings is when there's an adjacent offering that's producing outsized returns for someone else, is easily replicable, and which you have an asymmetric advantage on.

I think everyone knows that when someone says "it's trivial" for a business to do something, it doesn't mean it's actually trivial. Doing anything of any value anywhere is non-trivial. It's shorthand for "doing Activity X is almost certainly achievable with an acceptable outlay of risk for Business Y."

Re:Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After ... by vlucas on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:35PM (#50384134)
> By this logic every single company on the planet would be a single-product company.

This is absolutely not true, and proof that you completely misunderstood what I said.

You took an upmarket B2B infrastructure company and compared it to a low-end B2B/B2C software company. That is a completely different type of business.

Cloudflare launches new products and offerings all the time - and all B2B within their market space. The difference is that if they did what you suggest (make a Lovable), it would put them in a position of competing with their own customers, and it would have a chilling effect on selling more infrastructure to other companies who would then fear competition as well. It's not that they can't do it. It's that it is not wise for them to do so, and it's a different type of business entirely.

Re:Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After ... by estearum on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:43PM (#50384225)
As I understand it, very little of Replit and Lovable (especially) are actually B2C. A lot of it is internal teams at mid-sized companies, which are a huge and demonstrably very fruitful customer segment, and one that Cloudflare does in fact serve already.

Cloudflare has already started releasing products that point in this direction. Not sure how far they will (or should) go, but it's really not categorically ridiculous or impossible or nonsensical, as you're implying.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/