Many startups just died today.

Because OpenAI added PDF chat. You can also chat with data files and other document types.

We had a wave of products better suited as features rather than stand-alone companies.

Wrappers are being squeezed by OpenAI on one side and incumbents on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

— Alex Ker 🔭 (@thealexker)
1:51 AM • Oct 29, 2023

I'm optimistic about !

Because I don't think ChatGPT will ever implement small PDF-related features that customers desperately ask for.

Sure, I believe small players will go away or not even want to get started, and big players with VC money will die once… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

— Damon Chen (@damengchen)
4:54 AM • Oct 29, 2023

API users for centralized entities are like a research team.

If anything useful emerges from research then the company would implement it natively.

If your startup is just using AI APIs then it’s just a function of how useful that feature will be for the API provider to build… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

— Nischal (Shardeum) 🔼 (@NischalShetty)
9:25 AM • Oct 29, 2023

I’ve talked to a lot of first time founders over the years.

These are the 10 most common marketing mistakes I see them doing:

1. A landing page so focused on the benefits that visitors don’t understand what the product is

2. Not building a solid search strategy from day one… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

— Andrea Bosoni (@theandreboso)
12:28 PM • Oct 29, 2023