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You could clone easily before AI. When learning a language, "Build a twitter clone" is a tutorial project. That doesn't give you the business. It give you no u
by codingdave 2mo ago
You could clone easily before AI. When learning a language, "Build a twitter clone" is a tutorial project.
That doesn't give you the business. It give you no users, no market, no branding. You don't have the operations set up to run at scale, nor the customer base to even need it. Not to mention the leadership to build out a vision. "Clone someone else" is actually a bit of a red flag in terms of vision.
If anything, the ease of launching an MVP should prove what many folks already know - coding is not the bottleneck that prevents business success. It is the tool that allows you to step up to the starting line.
- mzubairtahir 2mo agoIt's not about cloning and selling your own app. It's about using app that you are paying for, by cloning it using AI.
- sph 2mo agoAn app that you now have to maintain. The point of spending $5 a month is not to have to deal with that hassle. It makes zero sense to do it to save money. SaaS customers really aren’t in the business of SaaS cloning. The only people that might look into cloning an existing business are competitors, and by virtue of being competitors they already were a danger to the business.
- leros 2mo agoCompanies are happy to pay for SaaS products that are being run by a team of people who are experts in that domain and are also responsible for anything that goes wrong. Cloning something in house, no matter how it's done, doesn't bring you the subject matter experts and it shifts the responsibility/blame internally.
- is_true 2mo agoIf you have the resources to clone other "apps" instead of working on your own, either you have too many free resources or your "app" is too simple and someone will copy it using fable, allegory, apologue, parable, or the the next LLM that ships in the next few days.