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I agree Dago (by the way, I enjoy your memes on Twitter). I think too many IHers are just building small features rather than full fledged products. I mean, if they want to make a few k a month, I guess that's alright, but they shouldn't be surprised if they are disrupted easily by competitors and copycats.

A month or two ago, there was some drama (which I'm sure you've seen as well) about an IHer who found a copycat. I looked into it and it didn't seem like a copy at all, yet this person was complaining quite heavily about it. But I mean, it's the fundamental law of business, compete or die. If you can't compete, you're not fit to run your business, and others who can, will.




thanks for the meme appreciation :D.

Yeah I think some people confuse copycats with competitors:

- Copycats who just flat out copy your design / messaging / landing page: that's something to complain about

- Someone doing a product that solves a similar problem but build their own solution and design: that's perfectly normal and acceptable




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