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A comment on Ask HN: Is there any other web-business as easy as online dating and blogging?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there any other web-business as easy as online... by pg on Friday June 06, 2008 @10:48AM (#210866)
To make a successful web startup you have to deal with problems much harder than pedestrian ones like inventory and shipping.

Creating a successful dating site "doesn't require anything other than building a web-app" in roughly the same way that being a successful novelist doesn't require anything other than writing a novel.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any other web-business as easy as online... by ivankirigin on Friday June 06, 2008 @12:17PM (#210922)
But good people can have insight into these problems. Most people probably don't have any intuition for how to partner with a manufacturing firm in China.

I agree that product design is non-trivial regardless of context - but some problems are a superset of the problems faced by web companies.

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