When most products are $200 away from being recreated, how do startups even survive?
Aryvyo · x · 2026-10-04
A short but resonant question making the rounds: how do startups function when most products are only about $200 away from being recreated? It captures the core anxiety of building in the AI era — models and tooling have collapsed the cost of rebuilding features, making thin functional moats obsolete and pushing differentiation toward brand, distribution, data, and speed.
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