@willaaye
Can you tell us why you decided not to have a search bar right in the middle of the page so users can see what is available right away. You push people to signup before they search unless they discover the small search bar in the top right. Does this actually result in more signups?
Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
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Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#72Hahaha, I can't stop reading it as Hell Pouts.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#73I'm not going to lie, I didn't like this post as much as I wanted to. The author says that Google is making the same mistakes that LiveNinja made over a year ago. And that LiveNinja has learned a lot and iterated since then. At this point, I'm ready to believe that LiveNinja is the more mature product. That if I have a need, I should probably go to LiveNinja. I'm ready to be sold... But then the author does nothing.…
Maybe he wants Google to buy his company
But explicitly spelling out to your wealthy competitor all the ways in which you kick its ass likely improves your chances of being acquired.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#74tl;dr: Please buy us. Having Google enter your space must be one of the most crushing things that can happen to a small company. The feeling these guys felt when they saw the announcement must have been mortifying. Even if you have a superior product, like LiveNinja says they have, Google will outmarket you by so many orders of magnitude you just disappear into nothingness.
Are there a lot of products where Google's forced out the competition? All I can think of are search, maps, and webmail (a long time ago) and web analytics (closely coupled to their core business).
The rest of the stuff I can think of is either competing but not dominant (phone OSes, browsers), or bought as a winner (doubleclick, youtube). They don't seem to have honed their Microsoft-ish emulate-and-destroy skills.
He's probably not bluffing that Google moving into your space is a good thing for your company.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#75I'm not going to lie, I didn't like this post as much as I wanted to. The author says that Google is making the same mistakes that LiveNinja made over a year ago. And that LiveNinja has learned a lot and iterated since then. At this point, I'm ready to believe that LiveNinja is the more mature product. That if I have a need, I should probably go to LiveNinja. I'm ready to be sold... But then the author does nothing.…
I have mixed feelings, right now I'm experiencing a similar story with a project I have, and at this point I'm frustrated because whatever feature or differentiator I add, my competition takes it, at this point I feel like I'm the one shaping my competitor. I can only spend ~4 hours/week to this project and I'm the only person behind it, whereas my competitor has ~20 active contributors, so I'm starting to get dismot…
Collaborate?
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#76Hi Will -
Like the post... was poking around the site looking for a refrigerator repairman but couldn't find one.
I did find some broken links in the suggested categories... looks like a little syntax slip - you could probably fix in 30 secs.
https://www.liveninja.com/browse/\food-cooking\
The categories are being appended with forward slashes instead of back slashes.
Keep up the good work.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#77For all of the people wondering why he didn't explain what Google was doing wrong, he'll be effectively giving Google the market research that convinced him that Google's doing it wrong. (assuming something's there)
He had to respond to this. To the blind consumer, the two products are the same thing. Except Google made one that sounds like hangouts and the other has the word ninja in it.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#78For all of the people wondering why he didn't explain what Google was doing wrong, he'll be effectively giving Google the market research that convinced him that Google's doing it wrong. (assuming something's there)
He had to respond to this. To the blind consumer, the two products are the same thing. Except Google made one that sounds like hangouts and the other has the word ninja in it.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#79For all of the people wondering why he didn't explain what Google was doing wrong, he'll be effectively giving Google the market research that convinced him that Google's doing it wrong. (assuming something's there)
He had to respond to this. To the blind consumer, the two products are the same thing. Except Google made one that sounds like hangouts and the other has the word ninja in it.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#80When I signed up for liveninja using facebook, it gave me the facebook access confirmation fullscreen, so the OK was way in the bottom right. I almost missed it.
In case that is helpful.