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Ask HN: Has any startup died due to idea being copied by a big company?
- empressplay 10y agoYes.
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- mvpu 10y agoSnapchat (2011 - 2018). My its soul rest in peace in Instagram.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoAre you predicting that snap will fail in 2018?
- mlejva 10y agoThere was a company called Kiko[0]. They made it into YC back in 2007 I think. They were basically building Google Calendar. After a year of work Google unveiled their Google Calendar and they had to sold their business. PG wrote about it in one of his essays[1]. [0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kiko#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kiko#/entity [1] http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html
- thewhitetulip 10y agoIt is sad to know that. Couldn't google have bought the company altogether. Also how does this compare with imvu and snapchat (the two companies I know which didn't get outright killed because big companies tried to copy their product idea and failed)
- annmiller 10y agoyes, can't do anything but let it be.
- peter_retief 10y agoGo back a bit and you will see that corporations like Microsoft (and many others) are built on stolen ideas. Its a very long list but Lotus123 and Netscape spring to mind for me
- thewhitetulip 10y agoI came across this suggestion across the internet that "nobody is interested in your idea". Hence the curiosity!
- sharemywin 10y agoyou need traction first then they become interested. "Nobody is interested in your unproven idea" should be the quote.