Your startup is bleeding, and you're arguing over the colour of the bandages? Most founders are treating their MVPs like a sacred relic, but vibe coded MVPs are not bulletproof. They're just very (very!) expensive, heavy anchors.

In this episode of The AI Momentum Podcast™ with Moshe Mikanovsky, we will perform a visceral autopsy on the 2018 wave. Moshe has been in the Product war room for 3.5 decades and while the rest of the world was excited about emojis, Moshe was at a YC backed Legal Tech startup building NLP systems that eventually hit a wall built on decision debt.

In-depth diagnostics:

▶ The YC ghost

How Moshe saw the first mover advantage turn into a target for industry giants

▶ The LMS scam

Why Moshe looked at production-ready softwares and realised it was actually a cage, and why he built his own in 48h instead

▶ Late adopter energy

Why 35years experience can make you skeptical of the hype train, and obsessed with the signal.

▶ The reality

If your AI just helps you fail at 10x the speed, you don't have a strategy, you have a catastrophe.

The modular Triage stack

a.k.a, the tools we'll dissect:

The Brain: Perplexity for deep research without the fluff

The skeleton: base44 for prototypes

The UI: v0 & Goolge Stitch for rapid generative layouts

The logic: Claude & ChatGPT to stress-test the product's soul

The community: Skool for flexible traction over rigid LMS

Connect with Moshe:

LinkedIn: Moshe Mikanovsky

Course: Build your MVP

The community: Product Traction Accelerator (Skool)

Podcasts:

- Products for Good

- Product for Products

Author of book: The Resurrector

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