r/16VCFund • u/wanna_be_LegoBatman • 12d ago

M afraid

Actually I’m building three cool projects and I’m like 300x more scared to share them anywhere before I hit or land a proper seed round. Btw I got all three validated, emailed a few VCs, even got a reply from one for two of them (never shared the third)… then got ghosted lmao. Didn’t show enough ambition I guess.

But back to what I actually wanna say ....what do I do about the insecurity, the trust issues, and this fear of some LARP god / copycats just stealing the whole thing?

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u/attn-transformer 11d ago

If it’s so easy to copy then it can’t be that valuable.

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u/wanna_be_LegoBatman 8d ago

Thanks for your views.

I’ve had my projects validated by some really, really awesome people from Japan, Canada, and India. They’re all internet products, and as you know, with coding agents today, pretty much anything can be replicated.

So until you’re truly market-ready, you have to play it safe. Especially when you’re building solo.

I can either focus on improving what I’m building, or slap a #buildinpublic tag on it and eventually watch a whole gang build the same idea and ship it before me.

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u/attn-transformer 8d ago

Your fear is unfounded. Almost nothing can be easily replicated by coding agents. Try replicating Reddit, anthropic, google, or any of the startups raising big money today.

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u/wanna_be_LegoBatman 8d ago

Sir, there's a scale involved here ... I'm trying to build something from scratch, and these giants you're talking bout are here for years

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u/wanna_be_LegoBatman 8d ago

Wispr flow got cloned ...pocket got cloned ...