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Harsh Truth About Building With AI... • Your “AI startup” isn’t AI 90% just wrap an API call to OpenAI/Anthropic/Claude and call it innovation. You’re a feature, not a company. • Models change, your product breaks Base models update silently. Pro

💀 99% of AI Startups Will Die by 2026 – Here's Why 1. LLM Wrappers ≠ Real Products Most AI startups are just pretty UIs over OpenAI’s API. No real backend. No IP. No moat. They're charging ₹4,000/month for workflows that cost ₹300 if done directly

# Struggling with AI Dependency in My Development Career For over a year now, I haven't been able to write a single line of code without using AI. Despite having 3+ years of experience in web development, I've become completely dependent on AI tools

Byju's is making significant efforts to save itself, but nothing seems to be working. You can rectify a company's poor performance once, but if its reputation is tarnished, it may never recover. Byju's has failed badly in this regard. Their customer

Last night, during an investor call, I was asked: "What’s your moat? What makes Friday AI hard to copy?" Here’s my proud answer 👇 1️⃣ Emotional Intelligence at the Core Our proprietary Emotional Pattern Modelling is built to truly understand human

If you’ve got a killer business idea but no money to start... Here’s the good news: You don’t need deep pockets to launch. I have written a detailed blog where, you’ll get: ✅ A step-by-step roadmap to build with zero upfront cost ✅ 12 proven busin

It’s a little sad that the only way indian apps see quick scale is when they are positioned with nationalsim/patriotism. The push comes less from product love and more from nationalism. that’s not inherently bad, but it says a lot about how distribut

Had a heated debate with my co-founder Kalpan Shah. I was hyped about tools like Lovable, bolt.new, and Firebase Development Company (Firebase Studio AI). “These are the future,” I told him. “We can build anything with them.” But he pushed back —

The Startup Lie No One Talks About I used to believe that the best product wins. That if I built something truly innovative, people would come. That execution alone would separate me from the noise. I was wrong. Startups don’t fail because of bad

1. What is a moat really: A moat is a company’s ability to earn returns well above its cost of capital and keep doing it for years. Two things matter. One is how large those returns are. The other is how long they’ll last before competition catches u