What will be your moat considering in a few years, everyone can be a builder and creator?
The last few months have blown me away not for the announcements but for the actual use tools like Cursor, Windsurf and the even recent ones like Bolt or Lovable.
As someone who has no knowledge of coding, I have been up during nights materialising the product in my head into an web/app that I can run on my device - all through conversational english. With such pace and removal of barriers, what do you think the next phase of software development would be and what will be the differentiator that defines your(could be your product) success?
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Customer Service/Experience!
People will bet on a business with 100 customers and a 9.8/10 rating over one with 10,000 customers and a 5/10 rating.
@gamifykaran echoing that! Like essays written by AI, software done the same will eventually start acting and looking the same. Customer Service, and albeit marketing, will be the primary differentiator.
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I think that companies like these will need to invest into better services and honestly, it will be a though war because when products are identical, what else you can do? Only services – marketing differentiator, customer support, additional activities where you can invite your users (VIP events), exclusive care etc.
There is a product, then there is a business with customers. A product is not equal to a business, A product is just one part of a business. The key shift is that AI has made it much easier to build a basic "prototype" by piecing together different parts generated through AI. However, this often leads to insecure, unmaintainable code and growing technical debt. What truly matters is building and scaling a business, delivering real value to customers, and gaining meaningful traction, that’s what sets successful founders apart and that's where the moat is.