# The Hardest Part Isn't Building Anymore

> Blake Kim's HackMeridian 2026 talk in 11 slides: why distribution is the new competitive advantage when everyone can build with AI.

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HackMeridian 2026 · Talk. Blake Kim, Co-Founder, Myosin.

> The hardest part isn't building anymore. It's distribution.

Why distribution is the new competitive advantage in the age of AI.

## Two questions

- Who's building something you hope people use? (Most of the room)
- Who's talked to one of them? (A few hands)

The gap: What happens when everyone can build?

## The bottleneck moved

**Shipping is the starting line, not the finish line.**

The cost of building is going down. But the cost of getting someone to care isn't disappearing.

## The trap of attention

**Attention is not adoption.**

Attention → Adoption → Retention → A business (illustrative: each step keeps fewer people).

Your tech is why it works, not why someone buys it.

## Start before you launch

**Distribution starts the moment you decide who you're building for.**

- **Too broad:** People who want cheaper international payments. Hundreds of millions. Where would you even start?
- **Narrower:** Freelancers paid across borders. Closer. Still hard to find.
- **Your first customer:** Freelance designers in Portugal with US clients. You can find them. You can talk to them this week.

## The First 10 playbook

**Forget your first thousand users. Get your first ten.**

1. **Get painfully specific.** Describe your first customer so well you know where they live and what they do all day.
2. **Go where they already are.** A subreddit, a Discord, a meetup. Talk to them. Don't pitch them.
3. **Get them to come back.** A signup is nice. Someone who returns without you begging is the signal.

## The question to ask

> “When was the last time this problem actually happened to you?”

Hypothetical enthusiasm is cheap.

## AI changes the equation

**AI can help you find your customers. It can't make them want your product.**

AI can: Research the market, Find where your users gather, Sharpen your positioning. It can't: Understand another human being.

At Myosin we build Hivemind, an AI go-to-market intelligence system, to put that research within reach of small teams.

## The challenge

**Before you add another feature, find one real user.**

- 3: Find three people who might actually need it
- 2: Talk to them
- 1: Get one of them to use it

Not a thousand users. Not a viral launch. Just one real person experiencing real value.

## The close

Can you build it? → Can you get someone to care?

Make sure someone actually wants it.

## Now go find your first ten.

Myosin.xyz embeds AI-enabled operators inside your team. We connect AI to your CRM and sales motion, and the marketing that feeds it.

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