HN – In LLM era, can software startup survive?

Nowadays, vibe coding is everywhere. Turning an idea into software is just matter of tokens. I was joking the other day. Creating a tax return softwar is much faster than purchasing Turbotax at Costco.

Large companies still have compute resources and customer bases. For startup, users are expecting open source and free software. Posts of subscription or one-time purchase software on Reddit will get tons of downvotes instantly.

In LLM era, can software startup survive?

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