Watched a launch yesterday. By morning, the founder's DMs were full of pitches from other builders. No questions about the product. Just "here's what I'm working on."

Look, networking is part of this. We all need it. But we're skipping a step.
Launch day used to mean something. Try the product. Ask real questions. Then connect.

Now we've optimized so hard for efficiency that we skip straight to pitching.
@Mastra a hit #3 yesterday despite this. But think about what that says quality products have to fight through noise just to get noticed.

Here's my take: we're not wrong to network. We're just moving too fast.