What no one else here seems to want to say out loud, so I will:
The “builder community” only exists within 2 arms of the mining space; open source, and products in non-competing lanes.
If your product is closed source or stands to infringe on any potential revenue for an existing product or business, there are no limits to the tactics utilized to attempt to destroy you or your products.
Shit talking, activating the rumor mill, false accusations, unfounded attacks on the products, businesses and people behind them, front-running, using fiscal power to strong arm people, etc etc.; it’s very fucking dirty. I’ve seen exponentially more non-competitive business practices than the opposite, here specifically. Some outfits seem to have made their entire promotional approach to be shit talking whatever they aren’t behind or don’t sell.
If you, like me, are a developer, inventor or technically apt person looking to enter into things here after seeing the public narrative that paints such a nice, pretty picture, understand that’s not the reality. At all.
If only everyone realized that the choice of what to buy falls on the consumer, and that choice is a beautiful thing because when you make the best shit, it sells itself without the malicious tactics required.
Pride and confidence never has to be so loud… 🤔