There have of course been hundreds of threads in this space in recent months—enough that "AI fatigue" threads are now on autorepeat in their own right. Soon we will have AI fatigue fatigue.
In the context of the current AI flurry, I don't think landing pages and waiting lists can count as SNI. Let's keep the space for projects and products that people can actually try (and/or articles that contain genuinely interesting new information).
Funny thing is, at this point you could use those AI models to generate ideas for what to do with AI models (possibly complete with landing pages of imaginary companies doing it), and it will be hard to tell apart from the "real thing". Never before did ideas mean so little, and execution so much.
But people already felt for the fake it till you make it. This will make it even easier, but how many people have a vague idea in a coffee place, register a domain and put a landing page and that’s it? Some put a saas starter on to catch signups and leave the dashboard ‘coming soon’, also forever…
Maybe this will finally kill the whole approach - when everyone and their dog runs fake landing pages for their shower ideas, people might finally wisen up and stop believing them (and giving them their e-mail addresses).
Maybe the founders are just trying to throttle for performance and ability to let in users only as fast as they can talk to them and get feedback. That’s what I feel like Y Combinator taught me anyway. Feels like something we should encourage on HN.
I get the concern about vapor ware and fatigue but feels like there is a better happy medium here.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Edit: something similar came up yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34735331.
There have of course been hundreds of threads in this space in recent months—enough that "AI fatigue" threads are now on autorepeat in their own right. Soon we will have AI fatigue fatigue.
When there's a major ongoing topic (MOT) like this, our approach is to downweight the follow-ups and try to clear space for the submissions that have significant new information (SNI): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
In the context of the current AI flurry, I don't think landing pages and waiting lists can count as SNI. Let's keep the space for projects and products that people can actually try (and/or articles that contain genuinely interesting new information).