Creator Notes from Douyin's Conference: AI Keeps Shortening Product Lifecycles
hq4ai · x · 2026-09-19
The author reflects after two years attending Douyin's creator conference: technology that lowers production barriers inevitably shortens product lifecycles — especially with AI, and many peers have already pivoted to other tracks. Short-term virality doesn't matter; persistence does.
He adds that media attention always chases short-term trends, rarely covering slowly-built products, so the real challenge of long-termism is persisting without feedback — the upside being less competition.
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