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Why your startup won't make it

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Re: Why your startup won't make it

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Post by devmonk »

Great post!

And the other reason you were smart to quit that idea is: "Easy to use note-taking application with cloud syncing and simple organization." That sounds like overkill if I've ever heard it for a simple note-taking tool. If I'm taking notes I use a text editor or paper. For task and project tracking, I use Jira.

Re: Why your startup won't make it

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Post by Void_ »

devmonk wrote: post #2

Great post! And the other reason you were smart to quit that idea is: "Easy to use note-taking application with cloud syncing and simple organization." That sounds like overkill if I've ever heard it for a simple note-taking tool. If I'm taking notes I use a text editor or paper. For task and project tracking, I use Jira.

Thanks. I know it sounds like overkill - but it's exactly what SimpleNote dies :-) I would be very curious to know more about how successful they are.

Re: Why your startup won't make it

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Post by pchristensen »

Void_ wrote: post #3
devmonk wrote: post #2

Great post! And the other reason you were smart to quit that idea is: "Easy to use note-taking application with cloud syncing and simple organization." That sounds like overkill if I've ever heard it for a simple note-taking tool. If I'm taking notes I use a text editor or paper. For task and project tracking, I use Jira.

Thanks. I know it sounds like overkill - but it's exactly what SimpleNote dies :-) I would be very curious to know more about how successful they are.

Let's hope that SimpleNote never dies :)

They do something simple, but they hit it so far out of the park that it crosses town and lands in a completely different park! I think of it as Dropbox for Text. It's always where I need it.

Re: Why your startup won't make it

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Post by amackera »

devmonk wrote: post #2

Great post! And the other reason you were smart to quit that idea is: "Easy to use note-taking application with cloud syncing and simple organization." That sounds like overkill if I've ever heard it for a simple note-taking tool. If I'm taking notes I use a text editor or paper. For task and project tracking, I use Jira.

It's only overkill if the user is aware of the infrastructure. If you make notes on your Mac, it auto-syncs to your iPhone, blah blah, the user is only vaguely aware that complicated computation is occurring behind the scenes.

Think of email. Email pretty damn complicated behind the scenes, all to send text to other people. Why don't people just write letters to each other!? Why bother with all this error prone infrastructure? Because if it's done right, people aren't even aware of it, they just click send and get instant value.

Re: Why your startup won't make it

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Post by mattmanser »

So, you had an idea, your idea was validated because there are competitors and someone else just got funding to make that particular idea.

And then, because you'd have competition, you gave up.

And our startups won't make it because we'd give up if we found a competitor, which most people actually think of as a good thing?

A very odd post. Feels more like an attempt to justify your decision.

Re: Why your startup won't make it

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Post by Void_ »

mattmanser wrote: post #8

So, you had an idea, your idea was validated because there are competitors and someone else just got funding to make that particular idea. And then, because you'd have competition, you gave up. And our startups won't make it because we'd give up if we found a competitor, which most people actually think of as a good thing? A very odd post. Feels more like an attempt to justify your decision.

I'm sorry if it didn't make sense to you. I posted it, because I would find enjoyable reading it. Maybe you're just not kind of reader I tried to target, but I believe there are some.
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