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There are generally three reasons for not having competitors: 1. You're blind to what you're competing against. 2. It's not a problem worth solving. 3. You're
by klausjensen 5y ago
There are generally three reasons for not having competitors:
1. You're blind to what you're competing against.
2. It's not a problem worth solving.
3. You're genuinely innovating, creating a whole new category, which you're the first to ever think of.
Number 1 and 2 are extremely common. 3 is extremely rare.
- linkdd 5y agoThis is exactly why it's a hard question to answer. Innovation is not always "new problems to solve", but more often "new clever ways to solve a problem", which rules out number 2 IMHO. For example, Kubernetes was an innovation in the cluster management field where many had already solved that problem with other means, and many still do today. When you're trying to innovate, it's easy to fall in number 1 (being blind to the competition: current means to solve the problem).