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"X for Y" type of services never succeed because Y will never be better than X. Describe your service for what it does, not what it can be.
by lcnmrn 11y ago
"X for Y" type of services never succeed because Y will never be better than X. Describe your service for what it does, not what it can be.
- tahaozket 11y agoThat is not true. 4 years ago Parse described itself as "A Heroku For Mobile Apps" http://blog.ycombinator.com/parse-a-heroku-for-mobile-apps http://blog.ycombinator.com/parse-a-heroku-for-mobile-apps
- Hytosys 11y agoI don't know exactly what your definition of success is, but products of hyper-specialization do indeed make money. Etsy is eBay for home crafts, Twitch.tv is Justin.tv/YouTube/Ustream for video games. And of course there are thousands of enterprise solutions that are simply domain specializations of Microsoft Office and Dropbox that are doing quite well.