I think Amazon is making huge mistake and @Shopify is capitalizing on one of the greatest market opportunities in recent history by being AI-friendly where Amazon is not. I used to buy buy almost everything on Amazon and have my AI find the products for me. I've been doing this since @openclaw came out. I hate doing product research for small things, and I just need a good enough solution conveniently. Literally 70-80% of my $200k+ annual spend in 2025 on business and personal went through Amazon. Now, my @bot and any other AI has about a 60% failure rate trying to find me things on Amazon. In the last week, my Amazon spend has dropped below 50% for the first time and my bots now know to look for @Shopify vendors as soon as they get rejected on Amazon. Next week, we'll probably start just looking on Shopify by default, and I could see Amazon spend dropping to zero by end of year. People who buy a lot of stuff need to adapt and they will do so quickly. Good work to @Shopify, @OpenAI, @Muse and @cursor_ai/@grok/@bot for seeing this opportunity and hopefully Amazon figures it out quickly before they lose hundreds of others like me. I would say I'm pretty early in the adoption curve of people doing this and using AI this aggressively, but there is a big and powerful wave of small businesses and consumers right behind me.

I'd expand the moats left to: - Proprietary data or content: data nobody else has, or unique content you can create - Network effects / community: users make it more valuable for each other - Audience / distribution: you can get attention on demand - Physical component: hardware, locations, real-world operations - Capital: owning assets and investing (esp into the AI companies as they are and will suck up large parts of the economy) - Regulatory: licenses and legal barriers

A big % of tech people don't get it Normies won't ask "build me software" They will ask "I have this photo and I want to manually edit it" and it will spin up a Photoshop clone They will ask "I need to know if sales are going up or down this quarter from all different ecommerce platforms we use" and it will spin up an analytics dashboard connecting all APIs with scheduled crons that keeps it up to date forever They already do! They won't know they're building software because their AI app/agent will do it for them And then they'll stop using most regular software!

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It's always good to diversify your portfolio and have multiple streams of income. I built a handful of B2C micro SaaS projects a few months ago, enabled my SEO pipeline to write blog posts, and let them go. Slowly but surely, they've been growing and have now reached the $1k MRR milestone. Not life-changing money for sure, but it's good to have a few extra bucks in your bank account. I don't actively maintain them and just fix some bugs once in a while. I think they have the potential to grow further, but I just don't have the time as I'm focused on my best mobile apps atm. As usual, guys, slow and humble growth, no bangers to brag about. And remember that SEO works and it's the king!