Arvid Kahl warns that sharing architecture, revenue, and feature details publicly is riskier because agentic coding tools let competitors replicate products quickly, reducing the safety of transparency for bootstrappers.
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
The old safety threshold of $20-30K MRR has collapsed to zero.
With agentic coding tools
The Increasing Risk of Building in Public.
no coding skills required
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