Gokmen Ozturkmen: Honestly you're right. I'm not exactly sure if focusing on a specific niche i…

Dhruv Tayal @dhruvtayal·Trusted AEO 25d

Checked the site — clean interface and the concept is clear now. Being the trusted data layer that derivatives markets and algo traders plug into is a real gap, especially as more platforms want structured inference data via API.

The positioning challenge: "number 1 source" is a claim that needs proof points. What's the first vertical or market you're targeting where you can dominate the data before expanding? That niche authority becomes the foundation everything else is built on.

Gokmen Ozturkmen @gokmen·

Vono AI 25d

Honestly you're right. I'm not exactly sure if focusing on a specific niche is my goal here, I just want to own the most trusted data source for AI, constantly updating itself, constantly on top of the game. This is a very long term play though :) I thought of API's but models don't come out as fast, so people won't really pay for an api you know. Unless the API is a plug and play way for devs to use to determine which model to use for what task automatically.

Dhruv Tayal @dhruvtayal·Trusted AEO 11d

That's the real tension here — "trusted data source for everything" is hard to own from day one, but "the API that's never wrong about which model to use for X" is a genuinely ownable niche. If devs start trusting your picks for one narrow, high-frequency use case, that reputation compounds and expands outward naturally. Trying to be the trusted source for everything at once usually means nobody trusts you for anything specific yet. What's the one use case where your picks are most clearly better than someone just guessing or defaulting to GPT-4/Claude?

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