I feel as if I am looking at an alien civilization's attempt at emulating entrepreneurship, or a bizarre GPT-3 social experiment.
I feel as if I am looking at an alien civilization's attempt at emulating entrepreneurship, or a bizarre GPT-3 social experiment.
This same crowd will also preach product-market fit like it's religion. It's literally a race to throw crap at the wall, hype it, and see what sticks. A similar pattern also plays out a little differently and to a lesser degree among startups in respectable accelerators with VC backing.
I think it serves a very useful purpose, though: hypercompetition. Any space that shows promise these days is quickly oversaturated with products such that there can be no clear winner. This is actually a really good thing depending on how you look at it, because it raises standards required to win to a very high level. That in turn filters out virtually everything, including products that we would've previously considered good enough to win the space.
I equate this stuff to writing a script that automatically upkeeps a social media account so you can leverage it to get free meals[1]. not wrong, neccesarily, but certainly not something you should be proud of or frame outside of "check out this cool low-effort money-making trick".
[0] https://www.nocode-exits.com/p/from-no-code-saas-validation-...
I think the online culture around this is more annoying than the actual activity.
It just seems like a lemonade stand or washing cars to me.
I'm not sure why you're looking down on this particular level of abstraction.