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  • Pure software moats are dead; durability now requires regulatory, hardware, or physics barriers
    tom · Y Combinator

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HEADtom·Y Combinator·17 days ago
Pure software moats are dead; durability now requires regulatory, hardware, or physics barriers
Writing software is no longer a 'hard bit' — AI makes replication trivial. Durable startups must tackle genuinely hard problems: regulatory barriers (banking licenses), physics (space launch, nuclear), or complex B2B sales. Pure SaaS like Calendly is 'basically dead'.
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