Re:Ask HN: I have an idea how to become a competitor to Amaz...
by VincentTide on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @07:20PM
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Server costs have become so minuscule that they can be considered a non-factor nowadays.
Therefore, your first step is to spend a few billion dollars building datacenters, hiring programmers and product people, and create a competitor to AWS that has approximately equal market share. That should take 5-10 years.
When you are done, you can start your e-commerce system that competes with Amazon's. You'll have the infrastructure that costs about the same (i.e. is similarly subsidized) and you'll have a fair fight.