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Building in public is honestly a joke now: - You post the first sale celebration post or a follower's milestone post to farm engagement. People reply with "congrats", but they genuinely don't care - You ask people to upvote your product, they upvote, but they don't even open your website, as they don't care - Most founders are crazy CHEAP. Unless you are selling the dream, they will rather spend a week building an alternative, rather than paying you $10 - Whenever you share a tactic that works, you get 10s of people copying you and making it harder to work - You can have thousands of followers, and barely get any views and engagement While at the same time, some coaches on Instagram make $10s of thousands of dollars with just 10k-50k followers, by building simple funnels and selling high-ticket. Don't get me wrong, I still believe in build in public content and community, and it GAVE ME a lot over the last few months. But tell me, what's the point of building in public content on X over filming reels and selling high ticket?

Hurts to say but distribution > product is no longer accurate. It’s now ONLY distribution. Everyone can build anything good, your only obstacle is top of funnel. If you cannot get eyeballs, you will lose. The good news is : You can engineer marketing in the same way you would code a hard solution. You just need to frame it properly.

What happens to open source when AI is writing 100% of the code? I've been thinking about this a lot. Like… the whole system was built around humans valuing the act of contribution. You learned, you struggled, you submitted a PR, you got feedback, you got better. That loop created engineers. It created community. It created ownership. If AI writes the PR, who owns it? Who learned from it? Who's gonna stay up at 2am debugging the thing they shipped because they actually care? The cool part about OSS is that no one owns it. As a consumer, you could always look under the hood, fork it, take it somewhere else. I don't think open source dies. But I genuinely don't know what it becomes... Any ideas?