Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThis seems obvious but the reason has nothing to do with GPT-3. It’s just a bad idea to build a business around someone else’s API, especially when there’s no real competition to that API (for now) and it’s nontrivial to roll your own replacement if you had to. Someone else mentioned the App Store. But that platform requires diverse businesses to participate for it to be valuable to Apple’s customers. And you can still diversify across other platforms and app…
The idea that the use of GPT-3 in a product is not providing a differentiator is true if we are rebottling the output with no value added. Stock photos from Unsplash and software libraries from Github also provides zero competitive advantage - but the possibility of synthesizing a competitive new offering on the back of these is still perfectly possible. Enablers and Differentiators, not the same thing. The obvious out of the way, I have learned never to underestimate market…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 228
- Total comments
- 139
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-30 | Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea | allencheng | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-07-31 | Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad IdeaFirst breakout · Best thread | paraschopra | 119 | 71 |
| 2022-10-09 | Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea (2020)Latest 20+ point return | swyx | 106 | 68 |