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“Is this product going to be necessary in 2027, 2028? I mean, probably not, because literally the last three videos on my YouTube channel were edited by Claude operating Adobe Premiere for me, and it did a perfect job.”

The Panel · Bootstrapped & Indie SaaS · October 2026

“Is this product going to be necessary in 2027, 2028? I mean, probably not, because literally the last three videos on my YouTube channel were edited by Claude operating Adobe Premiere for me, and it did a perfect job.” — Brian Casel, The Panel

Casel was explaining why he struggles to commit to any one product idea for the long term. His latest idea is in the video space, a big market where he thinks he has a distinctive take. This is the question that stops him each time.

Transcript

The Panel Around 36:44 into the episode
Brian Casel

sure I'll get around to building. Um, but all of these the logic usually goes something like this: like, okay, I Feel Fine pain. I think that there is a gap. I'm not satisfied with the current solutions. I know I have some taste and an idea for how I want to solve this. I'm going to build it. And, and I also,

Speaker 4

but usually, as I go

Brian Casel

through that process, I'm also thinking, like, how would I market this? How would I position it? How, like, who would I be pitting this against as an enemy from a position standpoint? Yeah, and but also, like, what is the unique difference? Like, here's the category that this is going into. Now, how is my thing different? If you are a person who sees the world my way, then this is why you should like that, right? You can see my latest attempt at that by looking at the copy that I wrote on the Flywright marketing site. And same thing with Mimeo. Now, the dead end that I end up coming to is like, am I ready to commit and say and say to myself, I'm going to go all in on this idea because I Feel that a great long-term successful growing business can be built on this one product. I have a hard time saying, I haven't yet found a product that fits that criteria. I mean, there's one newer product idea that I thought I was there like a couple of weeks ago. It's in the video space. And I won't really get much more into it. I think I will build some version of this, but it's still, it comes back to that thing where I was like, all right, this, this looks like a good opportunity because it's a huge category. Yes, it's very competitive, but there's a world of customers out there, and I just need a small slice of them. And I do have a very unique, a unique take on this that I think is worth, that makes it noteworthy, that makes it worth paying attention to. Again, I still might do something like this, but I still come to the, at the end of the day, like, is this product going to be necessary in 2027, 2028? I mean, probably not, because literally the last three videos on my YouTube channel were edited by Claude operating Adobe Premiere for me, and it did a perfect job. I mean, you know, so it's the longevity,

Jordan Gal

right? What we've talked about in the past around valuations, that the terminal value, the thing at the end, it's similar in like a product decision.

Brian Casel

Yeah, or it's life like the it's like it's like, am I going to do, am I going to build something with platform risk? You know, that it's almost like every single category feels like it has platform risk at this point. You know, like, like, yeah, I could

Speaker 4

probably launch a product

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