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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by jamil7 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:23AM (#21333815)
> release a prototype after 2-6 weeks

I'm in the situation where my product overlaps significantly with others but brings (IMO) some missing features and a better overall experience. I would love to launch quickly but feel I need some feature parity with competitors first.

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by brianwawok on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:58PM (#21336547)
You can't reach feature parity to an active product.

Say they have 10 developers and 200 features. You can go from 0 to 200 features in 2? years. How many new features have they added in 2 years, 100? So the cycle repeats.

Do a subset of the competitor but do it really well.

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by satvikpendem on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:19PM (#21347510)
Remember the Innovator's Dilemma. Worse is better for new products, because competitors over time add so many features that they become bloated, and so a newer entrant can create a basic version that doesn't have all the features, but it has the top 1 or 2 or even 3 features that most customers want, for a lower price. This usually will win out and the cycle continues :)
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by j45 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:14AM (#21334266)
Also, there is not a way to know if the features being made into parity are in fact all valued.
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by j45 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:50AM (#21334032)
If people are looking to switch for a different offering, they will tell you.
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