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> Our hearts sunk. They were pretty much already working on what we had been planning – and they are going to give it away for free. Selling below cost price is considered anti-competitive, and is illegal in many countries.
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No. It may have been smart to let this idea go, but "Google entered the space" is not generally a good reason to give up. For niche products, small companies are often in a surprisingly good position to compete with Google (or pretty much any giant company). Advantages small companies have: * Much easier to change feature/function/benefit and packaging to adapt to the market * Not competing with revenue from 1000 oth…
I read the OP as thinking since Google would give away a good-enough service, it would be very hard to find that niche.
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Not quite: "Our forecasts had us profitable as of summer, 2016, and closing our second year with nearly $1.2-million in revenue." Those were forecasts, not actual revenue.
You're right, it does sound like they mean it's a forecast. But predicting that kind of revenue (and so specific) when you don't have any revenue at all sounds a bit odd. What's it based on, if not an actual curve of growing revenue?
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> very niche. Yes, but I don't think that means it's doomed. Every site doesn't have to be youtube or twitch. > very unattractive. Your complaint is extremely subjective and evidently false for tons of people considering the brisk business game guide companies have done for decades and that streamers do on twitch and youtube today. > very monetizeable. Yes.
> Your complaint is extremely subjective and evidently false for tons of people Possibly, but please consider this: Game guides and gamefaqs.com contain reference works wherein one can go and look up details when one is stuck. One doesn't usually read the whole thing to learn how to play the game in the most efficient way (unless it's competitive or has complexity on the level of a programming language, like Minecraf…
Picking three random games off the top of my head
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvEIxIeBRKSjprrvlbAcb...
- https://www.youtube.com/user/foxdropLoL/featured
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbmd4eRNwnE
I did not pick any pure let's play-ers, even though those video/streams can be quite informative and serve a basically identical purpose to the Prima guides of yesteryear.
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> One doesn't usually read the whole thing to learn how to play the game in the most efficient way (unless it's competitive or has complexity on the level of a programming language, like Minecraft). I'm not sure about game guides, but: 1) Walkthroughs are absolutely not the only type of guide that GameFAQs houses. It has never been only walkthroughs, even from its very early beginnings. The easiest example of this is…
> Fighting games Those are competitive, which i addressed in my post. Note that the original article specifically mentions the Elder Scrolls series as an example. > GameFAQs has had a forum for ages In forums you go in and ask your question. Again, it functions like a reference work. > You're being facetious. That is a highly uncalled for accusation, and i am serious. (Though it may not have been entirely clear that…
As it stands, the author did not provide a specific Elder Scrolls game, he generically referenced the series, but to take from the most recent RPG, Skyrim, here's the secrets of lockpicking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5fZobDqQbU
Heres how to make your wife hot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozn-byvM8GU
For their newer, online MMORPG game, heres some strategy to increase your income:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtZpUPGxWzg
Oh, it's specific users you ask? https://www.youtube.com/user/deltiasgaming
IGN Magazine has some good tips as well: https://www.youtube.com/user/IGNentertainment
Full disclosure: I have never played an elder scrolls game in my life. But my friends have. From the front page of my search results alone, I have a good feel of how it works.
I don't mean to offend, but your comment betrays either laziness or profound inability to run a search query.
How does an article simultaneously get upvoted to the front page, but universally destroyed in the comments?