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Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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The contributing guidelines page at https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc/blob/master/CONTRIB... gives a 404. Wanted to mention mattermost.com/.org as a Slack alternative in the Group Communication/Chat Tools section.

The correct link is: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/blob/master/CONT...

I submitted PR to fix this: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/pull/325

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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post #2

I don't understand why is there not more competition / options in the BaaS area. User management is stable, almost boring functionality required by every single product.

Any thoughts, folks? Is this a good opportunity?

Sure, everything is an opportunity. Make it happen!

On the other hand, the traditional wisdom is that a lack of competition isn't a good sign.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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I don't understand why is there not more competition / options in the BaaS area. User management is stable, almost boring functionality required by every single product.

Any thoughts, folks? Is this a good opportunity?

It's simply too hard to make money. You have very demanding users with infinite resource requirements and finite budgets. There's no margin in it.

And there are existing solutions that are satisfactory.

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