On: Show HN: Hosted IRC for Teams (my first startup)

[pbiggar]

He could, but based on his value prop above, I think there is much to learn before that's going to be possible. I'm not saying he can't, of course, rather that its going to be an uphill struggle that he might not get if he built a different product.

[mindcrime → pbiggar]

True. I don't mean to suggest that it's going to be easy.

[pbiggar → mindcrime]

I keep having to advise startups "it sounds like it might work, but that's going to be really hard. Maybe you should do something else".