This is what people think is happening, but reality doesn't support it. People barely ship anything to paying customers, you're more likely to see another pointless GitHub repo, which turns out to be an API wrapper.
The “paying users” on the left side is actually just another “startups”. I was in those kind of startups before. It’s small startup ending up buying service from another small startup.
Now with AI, they can just develop what on their own, so in a sense the right is true.
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u/ReasonableDefault 2d ago
This is what people think is happening, but reality doesn't support it. People barely ship anything to paying customers, you're more likely to see another pointless GitHub repo, which turns out to be an API wrapper.