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Unfortunately yes, which is why you get founders awkwardly trying to answer questions like.. "How does your product compare to X and Y that are dominating the s
by nathancahill 11y ago
Unfortunately yes, which is why you get founders awkwardly trying to answer questions like.. "How does your product compare to X and Y that are dominating the space right now?" when they've never heard of X or Y.
- jtuente 11y ago> Classic HN. Jumping from someone's annoyance to "create a startup" that "definitely has value" without knowing anything about the space. All that without specifying whether or not you have knowledge in the space. You probably should have specified X and Y are already in the space rather than assuming that someone already has taken up space there.
- nathancahill 11y agoBesides the established ones mentioned in siblings, there's https://airmap.io/ https://airmap.io/ which is quite good.
- TheSpiceIsLife 11y agoX and Y are dominating the space? Good, there's a proven market.
- nathancahill 11y agoOh dear, it's worse than I thought.
- bbcbasic 11y agoNothing can go wrong. And if it does: Pivot.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI'm assuming it's not the first time people have tried to start a business without understanding the competition - I'm not sure it's startup-specific.