Three of My Customers Have Cloned My Product

Re:Three of My Customers Have Cloned My Product by mesozoic on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @01:14PM (#6212804)

This seems like a post written by someone who values ideas much more highly than execution. Ultimately if you're actually providing value beyond whatever code you wrote does and executing at a high level you should not be scared of the competition at all.

Ideas do not create value for a customer, execution does. Perhaps it all relates back to the fallacy of passive income and the build it, release it and sit on a beach philosophy that just isn't reality in any competitive business environment.

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Re:Three of My Customers Have Cloned My Product by mkrecny on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @01:21PM (#6212858)

OP here. Great comment, thank you. I'm definitely a proponent of execution > ideas. I hope I made that clear in the post by saying:

"I don't mind that their app does exactly the same thing as mine. Or that I could lose business over it. It's that they've slavishly copied the minor details that I'm so proud of."

The minor details I think are a result of execution, not the ideation. However I think you'd disagree - would love to hear more on 'executing at a high level'.

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