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Sounds more like survivorship bias than actual good advice.
by remote_phone 8y ago
Sounds more like survivorship bias than actual good advice.
- robryan 8y agoIt only makes sense if you are selling a unique product. Even then though in most online niches are you going to have similar products that people are considering. For example this Drip comparisons page is a waste of time to create according to the above advice: https://www.drip.com/comparisons https://www.drip.com/comparisons
- Animats 8y agoI'd like instructions on how to recognize emails from each of those spamming companies and block them.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoThat’s just content marketing, nothing to do with thinking about competition, although that’s what you’ll be doing if you write that.
- madrasman 8y agoWhat about it makes it sound more like survivorship bias?
- ukoki 8y agoBecause people whose startups tanked due to them not keeping an eye on competitors are likely under-represented in the category of "things Hacker News pays attention to".