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I would describe Twitter and Evernote as the opposite of "niche".

• hn_throwaway_99 8y ago
  It's definitely niche in the world of VC. Take Twitter. The hope was that they would be the new Facebook, which basically everyone uses. While Twitter may have a lot of users, they aren't growing, and it's pretty clear there are basically two groups: Twitter users and non-Twitter users, and non-Twitter users don't see much reason to use it. But in the hopes of getting everyone to love Twitter, a lot of people think they lost focus on their existing users, which didn't make their existing users happy but never ended up enticing significant numbers of non-Twitter users either (FWIW I am in the "non-Twitter user camp", so not complaining they broke my experience)