I lived through the mobile era in Silicon Valley. For about four years, you could just build something, put it in the store, and people would find it. Then the gold rush ended. Distribution got hard. The window closed.
Now I'm getting that same feeling with AI, but bigger. The difference is I'm older now, and I know what these windows look like. I know they close.
New models, tools, and repos keep dropping. Things that felt impossible last month are trivial today. My partners and I are up late most nights sending each other screenshots, saying "look what this can do." Nobody asks anyone to do this. We just can't stop. Something drops, someone builds with it in a few hours, and the group chat explodes. It feels like we're getting away with something.
The anxiety isn't about whether this is real. It is. The anxiety is making sure I don't waste this moment. Some of the best companies of the next decade will be started in the next few years. I'm sure of it.
So what are you building?
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