Why I am building a product with a tiny market
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Why I am building a product with a tiny market
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Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#2I just build things for myself, and I am part of the smaller market.
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#3I tend to target niche markets because the odds of me succeeding are much higher. It's much easier to be the best of a small niche and like the article said everything happens on a smaller scale, so less risk. Most the wealthy people I personally know made their money from owning a small niche.
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#4I once spent an entire month developing a very niche product. I figured about 100 people would be interested in it.
Turned out only 11 were. :)
I earned no money, gained no fame.
Still i am happy i did it.
It was challenging enough be fun. Sometimes challenge is all we need.
I don't think your product has a tiny market. Everybody uses regex and nobody actually understands it.
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#5I love niche products. The popularity of "things for everyone" (like iPhone/Galaxy) somewhat worries me.
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#6Checked out the debuggex tool. Impressive!
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#7Will you be charging for this?
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#8I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help decoding. This is probably close to 99% of programmers.
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#9This reminds me a lot of the regular expression reAnimator: http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/.
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#10I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help decoding. This is probably close to 99% of programmers.
I think his point is the market overall.
Yes it's a huge share of programmers, I'd say 80-90% for your first example 95%+ for your second. But compare that market to the market for Dropbox, or AirBnB, or Amazon.
If you're market is "programmers" it's already a pretty minute fraction of the general population.