It happens, but it's rare. When last did a product take over a market without 100s of millions, sometimes even billions, of VC dollars?
There is no motivation to build a better mousetrap today, because the drooling idiot with a Claude account will look at how quick you signup users, clone it in a week (hey, it only needs to be superficially the same), and get VC money to dump until you go out of business.
It happens, but it's rare. When last did a product take over a market without 100s of millions, sometimes even billions, of VC dollars?
There is no motivation to build a better mousetrap today, because the drooling idiot with a Claude account will look at how quick you signup users, clone it in a week (hey, it only needs to be superficially the same), and get VC money to dump until you go out of business.