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No, you don't. That would be simply copying them and going head to head against them. I am doing neither. Just because I am taking the general idea of selling d
by hknmtt 3y ago
No, you don't. That would be simply copying them and going head to head against them. I am doing neither. Just because I am taking the general idea of selling digital content does not mean I have to know what exactly patreon does or or how it does it or that I have to do the same thing. It is like complaining that Yahoo mail isn't exactly the same as gmail. Or Office365 is not the same as google docs. The general idea is the same, but the implementation is nothing alike. If you cannot grasp that concept, I have nothing else to say to you.
- lolinder 3y agoI'm explicitly not saying that you should copy them, I'm saying you should understand them. What makes them tick? Why did people choose them? What do they do well? What do they do poorly? The fact that you're having such a hard time understanding the difference between researching your competition and copying them is further proof that you aren't ready to be running a startup—you have a lot to learn about business before you're going to get anywhere. If you're dead set on continuing, it would be a good idea to learn a bit of humility and consider that maybe, just maybe, the dozen-or-so people on a startup forum telling you that you're wrong might know something you don't.