AI-First Ideas Get Redone Until They Scale
Founders discuss why promising AI products may require multiple attempts to reach market scale.
Hiten Shah posted on X that models keep improving and builders' understanding grows, so a strong AI-first idea without enough users or market saturation will be recreated by others until it reaches scale. Jane Manchun Wong quoted the remark with a note emoji. Shah followed up to correct the phrasing from "scales" to "scale" while confirming the intent. The three-post exchange on X centers on this pattern of repeated attempts for promising but under-adopted AI products.
@wongmjane Models keep getting better and our understanding of how to build with them improves too. And if something isn't gaining enough users and hasn't saturated the market but is a great AI-first idea, it'll get redone until it hits scales. At least that's one of my working…
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AI-First Ideas Get Redone Until They Scale
Founders discuss why promising AI products may require multiple attempts to reach market scale.
Hiten Shah posted on X that models keep improving and builders' understanding grows, so a strong AI-first idea without enough users or market saturation will be recreated by others until it reaches scale. Jane Manchun Wong quoted the remark with a note emoji. Shah followed up to correct the phrasing from "scales" to "scale" while confirming the intent. The three-post exchange on X centers on this pattern of repeated attempts for promising but under-adopted AI products.
@wongmjane Models keep getting better and our understanding of how to build with them improves too. And if something isn't gaining enough users and hasn't saturated the market but is a great AI-first idea, it'll get redone until it hits scales. At least that's one of my working…

