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Microsoft Copilot was just released -- how many of you Indie Hackers working on AI were affected?

Hey IndieHackers fam!

Alex here, recently Microsoft just launched their MS 365 Copilot that's kind of a jack-of-all trades AI that covers several functions when it comes to productivity tools.

I've seen a lot of this community's work, some were building AI work productivity tools like AI image creation, AI for copywriting, AI for newsletter etc. and now that the tech giant, Microsoft has just launched their fish in the game, I'm wondering how the indiehackers in the AI space plan to respond as it would surely impact the dynamics of every aspect of the business.

For our product, MailMaestro (https://www.maestrolabs.com/getmailmaestro-copilot), we're email-centric, cheaper and have more features for emails compared to MS Copilot, plus they have a minimum requirement for 300 licenses so smaller SMBs can't get a hold of it, at least for now, so we can focus our marketing messaging around these facts. Its not going to be easy, but its definitely going to be a tug-of-war b/n target demographics in the long run.

But what about the others? Are we going to tank? Stay afloat? Any strategies the IndieHackers can recommend?

on November 5, 2023