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   Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 09:59:36 JST Baldur Bjarnason

   Accidentally glimpsed the Y Combinator/React/“Prompt” side of web dev and these dudes are seriously indistinguishable from parody at this point. Just clowns play-acting at business without even a clear idea of what that looks like in practice. Yikes.

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 09:59:49 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     How these SaaSes sell crap to each other using VC money until they get acquired reminds me of that scam where the con artists move money around to make it look like they’re bigger players than they are so outsiders get fooled and fleeced

     What was it called again?

     Right… “tech startup”

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 10:00:40 JST Rich Felker

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     @baldur It's going to glorious when it all crashes and they want their money back from each other...