OpenAI valued at 300B will never be able to produce the same products "wrappers" that these 5 people startups are making. Same reason Facebook could not make Instagram, of Jira could never make bootcamp for example.

Counterexample- Facebook made Threads which has similar # users as Twitter now.

Didn't it came out recently that those numbers were bugus, since basically every Instagram account must have a Threads account, and those are not actual active users?

…. Does anyone actually use Threads? I’ve never once seen a threads link and I understood the user count was just because every facebook or IG or whatever user automatically got a generated account?

As with most social platforms, it differs massively per country, it would help a lot if people here spent more time considering the diversity of the world.

Ok, but if we have to go looking for it, then its not exactly a juggernaut.

I have also never seen a Threads link. For all the hatred of X, people do actually use it.

75% of Twitter users are bots now, some I'm sure are real people.

But people link almost exclusively to X everywhere, for anything from memes to timely news.

There may be a lot of bots in the comments but the platform is genuinely used by a lot of people, that’s just easily observable.

Meta really, really likes to game their numbers. Take claims of that with a hefty grain of salt.

Don’t believe everything you read if you actually believe this. Threads in no way has close to the same actual usage or users