After Haiku's 75% price cut, a 14-year product veteran says picking what to build is the real problem
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-10
Anthropic's new Haiku 5.5 averages 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, undercutting even DeepSeek's and GLM's flash models. But sujingshen, a 14-year product veteran, argues cost was never the bottleneck: figuring out who pays and why is the real problem, no matter how cheap tokens get.
The quoted long post shares a product-selection playbook for the cheap-token era: run daily automated trend/keyword research across Grok, Gemini, Claude, and GPT; scan opportunities like Japanese enterprise digital transformation and Southeast Asia; pick SaaS products close to money (e.g., AI customer support) where users already know the ROI; study what's actually earning on sites like TrustMRR; favor first-principles products with built-in virality; and only then validate demand with SEO/ASO keyword research.
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