... they are offering it for free to anyone on their $10/mo enterprise plan. By Friday, I had three cancellation emails in my inbox. All of them said some version of: "We love your tool, but we already pay for [Competitor], and it does this now, so we can't justify the extra $49." I completely understand it from a business perspective. Why pay for a specialized tool when the all-in-one platform you already use just added ... ... price war against a giant. We also can't out-market them. I know we need to pivot or find a new angle, but right now, it feels like the sky is falling. For founders who have been "Sherlocked

... resource to control, extract from, and when convenient ignore. The result? Apple now has the most hostile developer ecosystem of any major platform. Endless bureaucracy, shifting rules, poor support, and the ever-present potential of being Sherlocked make building apps for Apple's platforms a high-risk endeavour. And yet, many developers persist because for many, myself included , there s no other choice. So the question becomes: Is developing on Apple s platforms no longer worth the hassle ... ... felt like in the early app store days. it's become corporate, bureaucratic. but for many of us, it's still the best bad option. the question isn't really "is it worth it?" but "what's your alternative

... users in with zero marketing spend felt like all the validation we needed. Comment from Gaurav Singh(@gaurav_singh91): How I found the problem: Built agents for months. They could do everything except answer: "what ads is my competitor running?" Four browser tabs. Copy. Paste. Every time. Signal it was real: r/ClaudeAI had people asking for MCP ad data. r/FacebookAds had a guy calling Claude + ad spy "the biggest unlock in 2 years." No one had built the pipe. Validation ... ... exactly what to do next. Right now I am inviting in the first 30 founders personally instead of opening it up to everyone. Curious how you are validating that people would actually pay to have less on their plate, versus

... mattopmistro): I do my best to just evaluate on my own without relying on reviews. Look at their website, look at the LinkedIn profiles of the founders, see how 'legit' they are across social media platforms, & look up competitors to do side by side. My first job was at Gartner on the high-tech team, so I kind of put those lenses back on. Usually those steps do the trick to gut-check if it's worth investing time ... ... just reviewing products or an actual practitioner? I eliminate the first category and only lean on the second. But the thing is: it's evaluating the totality of everything I mentioned. Their website, their linkedIn, their socials, their competitors

... From your thread, I'd be worried that any low hanging fruit context/memory problems that exist in AI today will be solved in weeks to months by the large LLMs. Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @steveb  getting "sherlocked" is indeed a risk, but on the other hand that's kind of a risk with most infra AI products ...

... link ! Do please join the waitlist and we'd love to work with you as an early design partner if you're interested :) - https://www.corpusinsight.com/ea... Comment from Bryce York(@bryce_york_ag): Man... multiple tools, siloed data, Sherlock Holmes level of detective work, and crossing your fingers that you were able to make heads or tails out of what's going on... this makes it very difficult to be a data-driven founder. You're not sure where that ...

... interviews through a hidden in-browser window. And now has raised $5+ million. A lot of people started talking about whether this was morally right. On the other hand, we have tools that try to prevent "AI cheating," e.g. Sherlock . The truth is that we don't have to memorise anymore. In this decade, we've gone from googling to chatgpting, and the skill (in general) will be the option to collaborate with AI. Is using AI this ... ... products will only continue to evolve and balance each other, and rather than dwell on that, I think an face-to-face interview would be a good way to skip that. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @appsforhumans  Sherlock

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