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I think it may just be the office software category that hasn't been entirely ossified into a single product as of yet. If you want a word processor and a sprea
by ocdtrekkie 4y ago
I think it may just be the office software category that hasn't been entirely ossified into a single product as of yet. If you want a word processor and a spreadsheet editor, you have Microsoft Office. Or if you hate Microsoft (and yourself), you have Google Workspace. And that's it. There's not a huge amount of room for new competitors in that space, because a Microsoft Office product doesn't have to be the best at what it does, it just has to be included free with Office and it wins (see Microsoft Teams, and I guess, lol, Google Meet).
The todo/planning area really isn't satisfactorily filled by Office or Workspace, so there's room for competitors to jump in and play still. And it's a huge market not currently filled by one of the big product suites there.
Of course, the downside is that as soon as Microsoft clones your product as part of Office, your business is dead. Calendly and such set a whole new trend of meeting scheduling behavior, and now Microsoft and Google both built the functionality directly into their platforms.
- aristofun 4y agoThis doesn't answer the original question - why all those companies keep stacking up and surviving despite Microsoft/Google and despite being essentially a clone of each other.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoThe market isn't saturated yet. Tons of businesses aren't using these types of products yet. When you have a new product category everyone can grow, because there's new customers for everyone. Once it's saturated, then you tend to see more shifting, where one business actually loses out as another one gains, because people switch from one to the other.
- aristofun 4y agohow can this market be not saturated yet after ~20 years of saturating?