Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?

Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by whalesalad on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:56PM (#24076638)

> It's surprisingly hard to get a "map" of existing markets, but am curious about those the community can readily identify.

Startup idea. Automate this analysis and sell the aggregate. No one wants to do this work, but if you had a trustworthy source to exhaust all info for a niche or corner of the market, that would be cool.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by trevett on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:36PM (#24076841)

I would love to have such a tool. I was quietly waiting for others to validate the idea.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by mNovak on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:09AM (#24078171)

Isn't this what all those "market intelligence" firms sell? Point is only established companies want to pay for it.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by trevett on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:26AM (#24078289)

I've met startup founders who pay for this data to help in writing their go-to-market strategy for series A.

I really wonder how much friction there is in using a market research firm and if that's a big deterrent to a lot of potential customers.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by whalesalad on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:56AM (#24080925)

These firms have to guard their data. It’s all they have. So yeah they put up big walls and add lots of hurdles (calls, agreements, phases, etc) to increase the perceived value of what they are selling you.

If this data was more accessible, it would definitely be a game changer.

Finding it and presenting it and making it explorable is the really hard part.

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