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Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to re

by cj 4y ago

Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.

nojito 4y ago
you can't replicate the historical datasets
- ck_one 4y ago
  Why is the historical dataset needed?
  - jesterson 4y ago
    To analyse what product someone tested and concluded as unacceptable.
- batch12 4y ago
  > you can't replicate the historical datasets If you start today, tomorrow you'll have history. If you never start, there will be no competition and no historical datasets. Edit: finished thought
snoopy_telex 4y ago
It sorta seems like they won the 'right place at the right time' lotto in getting the links on about us. A competitor might have a huge battle to win that market share.
bratao 4y ago
I agree, It seems risky to not invest in R&D in any company.
- enahs-sf 4y ago
  At 14m ARR, the founder is well past fatFIRE. If someone wants to disrupt him, I doubt he cares.
dangrossman 4y ago
BuiltWith is 16 years old. Their business has been fully commoditized and ripped off so many hundreds of times that most of these "competitors" don't even have names. They're just email addresses in your spam folder. I have literally hundreds of mails that look like this -- "hey, wanna buy a list of every site using your competitors' services, enriched with business info and key employee contacts?". For example: https://i.imgur.com/V9raPcV.png https://i.imgur.com/V9raPcV.png The "$14M ARR" appears to be a journalist's guess/estimate of the company's revenue in 2015, which Gary said was an exaggeration, per https://www.ipobase.com/builtwith/ https://www.ipobase.com/builtwith/ I would bet that BW is long past peak revenue now.
mtgx 4y ago
gibb0n 4y ago
https://www.wappalyzer.com/ https://www.wappalyzer.com/
collin128 4y ago
Datanyze raised a round of two of VC 6-7 years ago but I'm not sure what they're up to recently.

by cj 4y ago

nojito 4y ago

you can't replicate the historical datasets

ck_one 4y ago
Why is the historical dataset needed?
- jesterson 4y ago
  To analyse what product someone tested and concluded as unacceptable.
batch12 4y ago
> you can't replicate the historical datasets If you start today, tomorrow you'll have history. If you never start, there will be no competition and no historical datasets. Edit: finished thought

snoopy_telex 4y ago

It sorta seems like they won the 'right place at the right time' lotto in getting the links on about us. A competitor might have a huge battle to win that market share.

bratao 4y ago

I agree, It seems risky to not invest in R&D in any company.

enahs-sf 4y ago
At 14m ARR, the founder is well past fatFIRE. If someone wants to disrupt him, I doubt he cares.

dangrossman 4y ago

BuiltWith is 16 years old. Their business has been fully commoditized and ripped off so many hundreds of times that most of these "competitors" don't even have names. They're just email addresses in your spam folder. I have literally hundreds of mails that look like this -- "hey, wanna buy a list of every site using your competitors' services, enriched with business info and key employee contacts?". For example: https://i.imgur.com/V9raPcV.png https://i.imgur.com/V9raPcV.png The "$14M ARR" appears to be a journalist's guess/estimate of the company's revenue in 2015, which Gary said was an exaggeration, per https://www.ipobase.com/builtwith/ https://www.ipobase.com/builtwith/ I would bet that BW is long past peak revenue now.

mtgx 4y ago

gibb0n 4y ago

https://www.wappalyzer.com/ https://www.wappalyzer.com/

collin128 4y ago

Datanyze raised a round of two of VC 6-7 years ago but I'm not sure what they're up to recently.