Supabase asked 2,000 founders what is hard now - technical complexity collapsed
The biggest single shift in the survey: technical complexity as the top challenge fell from 24% to 11% in a year. Free to read, ten chapters.
- customer acquisition now leads at 32%, then product-market fit 14% and fundraising 13%
- burnout appears as a new option and immediately ties technical complexity at 11%
- 61% of startups have more than half their codebase written by AI, and 40% report 76-100%
- solo founders went from 53% to 61% of respondents
When everyone can build, the scarce skill moves to knowing what to build and who to sell it to.
https://supabase.com/state-of-startups
📎 Read also:
→ WEF - the tech winners are integrators
→ 92% of US small-business exits are shutdowns
→ Carta - over 70% of vested options expire
The biggest single shift in the survey: technical complexity as the top challenge fell from 24% to 11% in a year. Free to read, ten chapters.
- customer acquisition now leads at 32%, then product-market fit 14% and fundraising 13%
- burnout appears as a new option and immediately ties technical complexity at 11%
- 61% of startups have more than half their codebase written by AI, and 40% report 76-100%
- solo founders went from 53% to 61% of respondents
When everyone can build, the scarce skill moves to knowing what to build and who to sell it to.
https://supabase.com/state-of-startups
📎 Read also:
→ WEF - the tech winners are integrators
→ 92% of US small-business exits are shutdowns
→ Carta - over 70% of vested options expire