It's not a startup and the alternatives are not competitors, but I've had a similar experience affecting my motivation to work on Red Moon. There's two other s

It's not a startup and the alternatives are not competitors, but I've had a similar experience affecting my motivation to work on Red Moon. There's two other screen filter apps on F-Droid, and at one point I proposed that we [work together], either merging our apps or creating shared libraries. While the other devs initially expressed some interest, they weren't willing/able to put in the effort and nothing came of it. This has killed my motivation to work on Red Moon. It feels like a waste of time, duplicating other people's efforts. That's not intrinsic to other people working separately to solve the same problem. If Red Moon were an educational project, or if it took a unique approach to screen filtering (like the other project I'm part of and [crowdfunding]), then I'd feel differently. But my main motivation was creating a FLO screen filter app, since previously I depended on the proprietary Twilight. And while there's a handful of valid approaches to screen filtering, the bulk of the effort is on UX, state transitions, and working around the kinks of Android, all of which are shared. Note: I don't bear any hard feelings towards the other devs, genuinely -- the most frustrating bit was [lack of communication], and even that is totally understandable; it's hard to say no to something you like the idea of, even to yourself (eg, acknowledging you'll never get to that project near the bottom of your list). [work together]: https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/issues/222 https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/issues/222 [lack of communication]: https://github.com/LibreShift/TransitionScheduler/issues/14 https://github.com/LibreShift/TransitionScheduler/issues/14 [crowdfunding]: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfunding https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...