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		throwuxiytayq on July 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (20... The real problem is, these products are $0 and really good. I've seen countless examples of greatly-executed newcomers displacing the leading solution. Most knockoff services don't understand that they need to be genuinely, perceptably better than the competition to succeed. Easy example of a success story: Discord.

spfzero on July 21, 2021 [–]

Or Zoom. They’re like the 8th try at this, but they crafted a product with much higher value, out of an old idea.

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