Can you say this about your startup?

Is this some sort of mantra or are you thinking out loud?

:)

Google would've been doomed...

How so?

1. no, it's hella complicated, but we're good enough to get it done

2. no, this problem has been discussed at length, no one has come up with the right idea yet. (which we have, of course)

3. yes, i mean it's not world threatening, but it will magnificently enhance shareholder value... :D

4. no, i think as a social site you have to either give people what they expect, or give them what they don't expect but will definately like

5. yes, we're going to roll into beta ASAP because it's a competitive market and we need to stake our claim

6. yes, we plan to grow our company and the community hand-in-hand and push new features as we grow and acquire the right team to accomplish what we intend as the encompasing design of our product (which may change according to user reception, of course. incremental build allows us to gauge user feedback and adapt accordingly).

the startup we're forming is a social networking webapp/site (challenging the myspaces and facebooks).

Surprisingly (to me), that sounds like a good description of what I'm working on. It's more of a scratch-an-itch, and has no funding (or chance of it in the near future) and no customers. I'm not even thinking of it as "a startup".

I'm doing it now because I'm out of a job, and don't feel like finding another right away. This has been bouncing around my head for months, and I finally have a chance to implement it.

I must have forgotten pg://newthings, because I've read it but I apparently hadn't internalized it.