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Building in public increasing competitive risk with agentic coding

April 3, 2026Arvid Kahl — The Bootstrapped Founder

Arvid Kahl argues that sharing architecture, revenue, and feature details publicly is becoming dangerous because agentic coding tools let competitors replicate products quickly, collapsing the old “safe” MRR threshold.

The Increasing Risk of Building in Public.
With agentic coding tools, anyone can turn your publicly shared architecture, revenue numbers, and feature details into a working competitor in days
The old safety threshold of $20-30K MRR has collapsed to zero.
“The Increasing Risk of Building in Public.”
“anyone can turn your publicly shared architecture, revenue numbers, and feature details into a working competitor in days”
“no coding skills required.”
“The old safety threshold of $20-30K MRR has collapsed to zero.”
Arvid Kahl — The Bootstrapped Founder
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