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As Maciej always says, do not attempt to compete with Pinboard
by neilk 3y ago
As Maciej always says, do not attempt to compete with Pinboard
- renewiltord 3y agoThat's in Zero to One. Competition is for losers. Small guys try to scare away competition with threats. Big guys lie that there's lots of competition. But no one wants competition.
- neilk 3y agoI wouldn't dream to speak for Maciej Cegłowski here. I would require a greater depth of literacy and far more Eastern European family history to achieve that level of sardonic commentary. But... I don't think he'd appreciate the reference. https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3APinboard%20thiel&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3APinboard%20thiel&src=typ... Pinboard, the product, should inspire a strategy that might be called Ten to One. Enter an app category which everyone has overspent on, wait for them to smash into the wall, and absorb their users into your self-racked server running PHP.
- renewiltord 3y agoI don't mean that his strategy is inspired by Thiel or even that Peter Thiel originated it: more that Peter Thiel happens to have written about this strategy as a standard play by the small guy. It makes sense that Pinboard/idlewords would attempt that. He's the small guy.