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Discussion on: What do you do if you're in the middle of a project and you realize it already exists in the world?

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Jeremy Forsythe

This is sometimes true, but it really depends on the app. How many successful snapchats exist? How many successful Facebooks? The software world can be (not must be) different.

Myspace is dead, because Facebook did it better. On the other side of the coin even Google failed to dethrone FB with basically unlimited capital on their side. Sometimes your competitor is too big/popular to fail.

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Florian Rand • Edited

Agree! Yes I missed that part in my comment and you are 110% right!

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Florian Rand • Edited

Also, we can apply this to other industries. What I love about your comment is precisely that you pointed a big problem for starting companies or launching products. You can't pretend to launch the next Facebook without the necessary resources to fight you in, or a very well planned strategy. It's a matter of common sense and reality, and a lot more complex than just developing a product. We all would be millionaire!

Thankyou for bringing this up!