Herd Market
The world we live in today is a herd market. The moment someone finds gold, the herd rushes down the same path. We’re all eating the same dish, just in different flavors. It’s like a chef discovering pasta. The instant people fall in love with little wheat cylinders, every chef puts pasta on their menu. One makes spirals, one makes tiny cylinders, another makes massive cylinders. The shape changes - but it’s all pasta. The key is, it’s the same underlying ‘unlock’: people like wheat in shapes. And that’s exactly what’s happening in tech. At the scale of large companies, we have 10 companies building the same LLM. We have 5 apps serving the same short form content. Zoom in to individual indie hackers and small companies. The moment this simple habit tracker app started making money - the market was flooded with ‘simple’ habit trackers. Same with this AI Calorie tracking app, and the same with my Lifehacks app that I built years ago. Zoom in further to individual content creators. Dif...