Thanks, it’s awesome to hear that you found it helpful!
I’m always down to talk more about the RSS reader idea. But yeah, I think 1, 2 and 3 are very good ideas.
As for the “do the same thing as the market leader but better” thing, I also feel skeptical about it now. There was a large period of time where people were telling me that they liked my product more than Flopzilla, and I was offering it for free, and I wasn’t getting users! I never would have expected that to happen.
That’s not to say that “do the same thing as the market leader but better” is always a bad idea, but I think it needs to be coupled with “and I have some good ideas about how to do customer acquisition” not “and once I do, I expect that users will just come”. For the latter, my thinking now is that you need to 10x your competitor or something, like the YC guys encourage you to do iirc.
Thanks, it’s awesome to hear that you found it helpful!
I’m always down to talk more about the RSS reader idea. But yeah, I think 1, 2 and 3 are very good ideas.
As for the “do the same thing as the market leader but better” thing, I also feel skeptical about it now. There was a large period of time where people were telling me that they liked my product more than Flopzilla, and I was offering it for free, and I wasn’t getting users! I never would have expected that to happen.
That’s not to say that “do the same thing as the market leader but better” is always a bad idea, but I think it needs to be coupled with “and I have some good ideas about how to do customer acquisition” not “and once I do, I expect that users will just come”. For the latter, my thinking now is that you need to 10x your competitor or something, like the YC guys encourage you to do iirc.