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Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company by mbesto on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:03AM (#15516317)
SalesForce is the greatest example of this - awful UX, but so many people use it because it does simply work. Lots of startups use SFDC and it's "their choice", so again the OP's statement doesn't really hold up.
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Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company by ivm on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:10AM (#15516379)
SalesForce was founded in 1999. Are there any examples that released after 2010 and got a significant part of their markets? Except for maybe Snapchat which is not too bad, just weird.
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Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company by mbesto on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:34PM (#15517088)
> SalesForce was founded in 1999

Why is that fact relevant? Care to elaborate?

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Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company by ivm on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:26PM (#15517544)
Because in the last years all the markets have become extremely competitive, including the niche ones. Even if you find an "easy" market and make a product with weak UX for it – it's only a matter of time before a competitor redesigns your idea into something better (example: HipChat and Slack).
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