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I'm bootstrapping a SaaS business with the same approach, I've been imitating and iterating over what I see other's have been doing, while trying to be original
by leroman 5y ago
I'm bootstrapping a SaaS business with the same approach, I've been imitating and iterating over what I see other's have been doing, while trying to be original (but very conservative) in some parts.
Hopefully, when I decide the imitation part is good enough (mostly in terms of feature parity), I add one of my more original ideas for a feature to the product.
- pfarrell 5y agoI cofounded a startup a few years ago that ended in an acquihire. If I could redo it, I realize we didn’t front load a killer feature. We spent too much time on table stakes so we’d look like competitors, there wasn’t much that set us apart to endear us to the alpha user base. We only developed some really novel things after like nine months. Looking back (and for next time), I’d have greatly descoped what we needed to imitate and gotten on those killer features asap.
- leroman 5y agoThanks for sharing!