A 'Midjourney for prose'? Why taste—not capability—might be a nine-figure AI business
panickssery · x · 2026-09-13
panickssery floats a product idea: a "Midjourney for prose." His take: Midjourney reached nine-figure revenue largely by producing more tasteful images than frontier labs care to make. Similarly, many people want stylish fiction, memos, explainers, and marketing copy—quality of taste frontier models don't optimize for—making a style-focused text generation product an interesting startup angle.
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