Just from looking at the diagrams, I'm guessing a competitor to Atlassian/Gitlab/Azure DevOps suites, but seemingly minus the git server and binary artifact repositories (which Atlassian also doesn't offer). So Wiki with diagramming tools and something like scrum or kanban boards. A persistent digital whiteboard, basically.
Looks like they also have CRM, but to be honest, I've never understood what that even is.
Fibery is like the penultimate example of not starting with a niche, which makes this article quite funny. They are the anti-niche, and further, defining a niche as focusing on a specific size of company is also an inversion of what most would call a niche...
They had a unique opportunity here to write an article “don’t start with a niche”, but I don’t know if they have the success yet to prove it.
Hasn't this ground already been covered in Crossing the Chasm[1]? I.e. that in order to move your marketing from early adopters to the early majority pragmatists you need to build an integrated solution for a specific problem. E.g. the Mac and desktop publishing.
How you’d narrow it? We tried post-seed Saas product companies but it seems no need to do that since it doesn’t has enough differences to justify the shrink
I enjoyed looking for niches in the VR industry previously, coming up with several prototypes and probing for users through Reddit DMs. Was able to get some starting sales that way.
I'm doing it for language learning, with the niche of couples, with myself as a user included. I re-read Crossing the Chasm a lot which covers starting with a beachhead, gathering your troops, and planning D-Day onto the market.
I agree with “Start with a niche”, but pretty much all of the examples given aren’t niche products..,, they were some of the most revolutionary products in history. I’m just saying they don’t really illustrate the concept of a “niche start”.
I guess a better headline would be "Start with a killer application." For aviation it might have been USPS delivering mail by air. Levi's making jeans for miners.
What are some of the ultimate examples? FB with colleges for sure. Amazon with book sales. Slack used to be for a gaming company? Discord from gaming to general online communites. Twitch from justin to gaming to now just streaming. Airbnb from air beds for conference events.
The visicalc niche may seem obvious and big now but the venn diagram of accountants who owned home computers and wanted to do their work on them was not that big 40+ years ago
This article makes me feel misled. Doesn't niche as applied here apply to everything from the wheel to soap?
Fake examples:
The general needed a wheel to move his cargo, so when he had the wheel invented, now the wheel was from an army niche.
The king didn't want poop on his hands like a pleb, so he got someone to invent soap for him. Boom, the soap came from the niche of kings. Someone who needed to walk far, invented shoes. Boom, the niche for shoes was far walkers.
So, I like the idea and I'm starting with a Niche: board games! Yes, that's right, it's me pimping my programming language for board games which I really need to work on more
I see a lot of potential outside of my space since I'm operating at the level of a document + atomic transactions + workflow, so I may have something more broadly applicable. However, the burden rests with me to paint the picture for how that could work.
All of the tech mentioned are broadly in the same domain - connecting people together or connecting people with information. This domain has saturated now. In fact there are no more niche areas untouched. All innovation now is about quality and economy. It just boils down to biggest bang for the buck.
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[+] [-] CharlesW|5 years ago|reply
Reading deep into https://fibery.io/about-us, it seems like they're a Notion competitor.
[+] [-] tobyjsullivan|5 years ago|reply
It's effectively a user-friendly database at the end of the day. I used it to plan my wedding and I love it.
[+] [-] ozten|5 years ago|reply
Links: Anxiety, Build, Connect, Freedom
Clicking Anxiety,
The page is broken up into the sections: Try, Suffer, and Quit...
The footer on that page says...
* Being Self-centered * Boring * Really contact us? * WFH * They Suspended Trump
The work of a funny intern or ?
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[+] [-] nonameiguess|5 years ago|reply
Looks like they also have CRM, but to be honest, I've never understood what that even is.
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[+] [-] nwienert|5 years ago|reply
They had a unique opportunity here to write an article “don’t start with a niche”, but I don’t know if they have the success yet to prove it.
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[+] [-] jp57|5 years ago|reply
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
[+] [-] purerandomness|5 years ago|reply
That's not a reason to stop sharing insights. They might be useful to someone in a way only you can rephrase them.
[+] [-] jabo|5 years ago|reply
This is still pretty broad for it to be a niche IMO.
[+] [-] ozten|5 years ago|reply
A niche is creating a product management tool targeted at SaaS companies building digital marketing tools.
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[+] [-] ngokevin|5 years ago|reply
I'm doing it for language learning, with the niche of couples, with myself as a user included. I re-read Crossing the Chasm a lot which covers starting with a beachhead, gathering your troops, and planning D-Day onto the market.
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[+] [-] user-the-name|5 years ago|reply
> VisiCalc (Excel predecessor, 1979)
> Facebook (2004)
This is an... interesting version of technological innovation history.
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Fake examples: The general needed a wheel to move his cargo, so when he had the wheel invented, now the wheel was from an army niche. The king didn't want poop on his hands like a pleb, so he got someone to invent soap for him. Boom, the soap came from the niche of kings. Someone who needed to walk far, invented shoes. Boom, the niche for shoes was far walkers.
[+] [-] mathgladiator|5 years ago|reply
http://www.adama-lang.org/
I see a lot of potential outside of my space since I'm operating at the level of a document + atomic transactions + workflow, so I may have something more broadly applicable. However, the burden rests with me to paint the picture for how that could work.
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