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A comment on Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit?.

Re:Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, bu... by mcav on Sunday December 06, 2009 @05:30PM (#980269)
"Make something people want" is primarily valuable as a negative test:

You probably won't profit if you make something people don't want.

But making something people want doesn't correlate nearly as well with whether or not your product is commercially viable.

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Re:Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, bu... by MicahWedemeyer on Sunday December 06, 2009 @08:03PM (#980456)
And there are oh so many ways to totally botch the execution. You can make the best thing in the world and still fail because you couldn't market it and no one ever knew that it existed.
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Re:Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, bu... by samuraicatpizza on Sunday December 06, 2009 @08:32PM (#980491)
And even if you do market well, the timing may be completely off or you may have bad luck.
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Re:Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, bu... by breck on Sunday December 06, 2009 @06:23PM (#980335)
True. Capturing value is not the same as creating value.

But if you don't create any value, it's easy to capture it.

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