True, but marketing works very differently.
Remco Evenopel rode Specialized and finished 2nd in this year's TDF.
For cars it's mostly just a value based decision, plus te security of having dealers and service.
One thing nobody is really talking about - that is super fascinating…
The bike industry is quietly having its “BYD moment.”
For years, Chinese companies manufactured bikes for Western brands.
Now the Chinese manufacturers are building world-class bikes under their own brands and selling for dramatically less.
Feels very similar to what happened in the EV industry.
France and Italy have a serious coffee problem.
They completely missed the Australian speciality coffee culture and got stuck serving 1800 style coffee.
@RadiationTDS@aakashgupta Not turbines. Turbine blade manufacturing. That's not solved yet.
He bought 1GW but if he needs more, he'll be still bottlenecked.
users will use your product with the default settings and never change anything.
therefore you should spend a disproportionally large amount of time thinking about what the defaults should be.
.@pmarca on the "three-way Mexican standoff" between coders, PMs, and designers:
"I'm seeing it in a bunch of the early leading edge companies in the Valley, they're circling around a job title loosely called 'builder,' or something like it. And basically the idea is that you had these separate jobs in the past of programmer, product manager, and designer."
" I've been describing what's happening in the Valley companies as sort of this three-way Mexican standoff, where the programmers think that they don't need the product managers and the designers anymore 'cause they can have AI do that, and then each of the other two doesn't think they need the other two either."
"I've been predicting they're all correct. The product manager can generate code and design now, and each of them can do the job of all three. The idea is the jobs change so now the job is builder."
@MTSlive
exact prompt used:
"I want you to create a product page for my ecommerce brand Kerala Botanics. The product we're selling is an Ayurvedic Vitamin C Face Oil. You can learn more about the brand the product details in kerala-ai-brain. I want you to create a high converting and well designed offer and product page. It should be based on Shopify's liquid template and Dawn theme. Start from strach in this folder and only create a custom product page, the rest of the dawn theme you can leave as is. You can use the information and assets you find in kerala-ai-brain, but you are welcome to be creative an create new assets if you want to. The page CRO should be as good as you can make it. When you're done, run the tempalte locally so I can see. This is a test project, do not commit anything to github and do not change my actual website."
Everyone says Sol is so much better at design than Fable.
I wanted to see it first hand.
So, I gave the same task (to build high converting Shopify product page) and run them in parallel. Same prompt, same context, same skills, same reasoning level (xhigh)
left: gpt5.6sol vs right: fable5
more screenshots and prompt in 🧵
they both added this fixed footer, which actually works really well for cro esp on mobile. (I recently added this to our real landing pages too.)
and both produced working shopify liquid code - which is incredible.