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In the space I care most about “Tools for Thought” and creative tools - you get more copycats the more novel and more impactful the idea is. Product is never a Moat in software, and for every founder seeking 1 legitimately new patterns you get 10 clones chasing hype.
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Tools for thought are a beautiful idea—inventions which can “change the thought patterns of an entire civilization.” But that’s a 30 year old quote. Why are they so hard to make? @michael_nielsen and I try to answer that question and suggest paths forward: numinous.productions/ttft
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FWIW - I still don’t accept ‘s conclusion that copycats mean you should guard your secrets But I also think that the idea that clones = “this is not original” or “if it is good, it must be free, so it is morally correct to make cheap knock offs” is really bad frame
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*Nothing* like @RoamResearch existed prior to 2019, yet within a year several copycats launched --> Guard your secrets closely and disbelieve people who tell you that ideas are not important. And be ready to compete on execution with the entire world, once it learns your secrets.
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I mean, the point of a cheap clone is basically to try to limit the window where a company can recoup the massive investment in R&D it takes to do something genuinely novel - and limit the war chest they can accumulate to invest in the next idea. And yet investors back them...
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