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AI has changed what counts as competition. It's not just other products anymore — it's also a user spending an afternoon with a chat assistant and getting 80% of the way there themselves. That's a real alternative now, and it's worth being honest about whether your idea holds up against it.
This doesn't mean AI kills every product idea. In many cases it does the opposite — it creates genuine opportunities that weren't technically feasible before. But there's a difference between an idea that's powered by AI and an idea that's just a layer on top of something users could do themselves with a bit of patience.
The question to sit with is: if a reasonably motivated target user spent thirty minutes prompting a general AI tool, how much of what your product does would they have? If ...
