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Re:Two big announcements by theknown99 on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @04:42AM (#7182785)
It was also a pretty dick move when they complained after someone (from Google?) reimplemented campfire in a day, and made them take it down.

If your entire product can be copied in a day, it's probably not that great.

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Re:Two big announcements by nacs on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:53AM (#7183024)
I'd think an HN user would know better.. It takes drastically less time to clone a product than to make it from scratch and refine it to perfection.
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Re:Two big announcements by midas007 on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @06:50PM (#7187691)
Execution is somewhat hard, but there needs to be durable competitive advantage: user base, brand, IP, talent, etc. All other things being more-less equal, a few apps will inevitably dominate. (I would acquire Asana and Rally Software which owns FlowDock.)
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Re:Two big announcements by theknown99 on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:59AM (#7183047)
So why did they cry and make google remove the webchat client then?

The idea that campfire is refined to perfection is laughable.

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