Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?

Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by flexie on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:39AM (#19776536)

Exactly. And while we are at Google. They were not the first search engine, but merely one of dozens if not hundreds. Facebook was not the first social network. Apple was not the first producer of computers for consumers. Amazon was not the first web store.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by xyproto on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:44AM (#19777447)

And Altavista and Yahoo were much larger than Google, at the time when it appeared.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by JohnFen on Monday April 29, 2019 @02:45PM (#19781315)

I remember when Google was first introduced, and a large number of people were calling them insane for going toe-to-toe with the Big Boys.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by xyproto on Monday May 06, 2019 @02:57AM (#19837360)

That's interesting. I guess the moral of the story is to never be discouraged by something already existing. There's always room for another twist, if well executed.

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