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Fair warning, YC founders: if you take these tokens, there’s a non-zero chance that OpenAI will study exactly what your startup is doing, copy your idea and put your app into their free offering. This is the classic platform playbook — be careful, founders!

2K likes247 repliesPosted May 20, 2026

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Hook: Plain observation
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Written for: People building with AI

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