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They’d only sort of be competitors if they are unwilling to sell to each other’s customers.
by benchaney 8y ago
They’d only sort of be competitors if they are unwilling to sell to each other’s customers.
- yellowapple 8y agoTrue, but if one of them doesn't have that constraint, then they would indeed immediately be full-blown competitors. Maybe Scripto only sells to folks with "correct" political opinions, but if I'm willing to sell my version (maybe call it "CueCard-o-Matic" or something) to anyone, then provided my version is competitive on features and/or price, Scripto's target demographic is suddenly a subset of my own rather than a different demographic entirely. Doesn't sound that hard to do, either, if it's indeed an Etherpad Lite fork + Elasticsearch + ENPS database compatibility + other bits to make it familiar to ENPS users. The ENPS-compatibility-and-familiarity bits could probably even be left out if customers don't actually need that (e.g. for orgs that don't already use ENPS). Of course, I lack any exposure to the target industry whatsoever, so I'm very likely falling victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect here, but someone who does have that experience might be a different story.