Covid-era funding was an outlier due to everyone being stuck at home and the historically low interest rates.
The irony is the historical average for the fed-rate is 5%, which is where the rates jumped to in 2025. Companies have simply grown so accustomed to the rate being almost zero, they're like a pet that acts starving despite being regularly fed.
At this point I'd like to hope they'll invest in stuff again, but it seems like they have no interest until the fed-rate is below 1% again.
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u/kytheon 7h ago
Indie dev here. It's not easier at all. It's way harder to find funding or support now than a few years ago.
And yes it's survivorship bias. 99% of projects fail and we only cherry pick hits, just to say something about the industry. We can't all be Balatro.