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Ask HN: Do you research about your competitors often?

3 points| mkchoi212 | 1 year ago

How do you research / stay up to date about your competitors?

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999900000999|1 year ago

That should be the first thing you do, even as an employee you should know what your competitors are doing.

If no competitors exist in a space, and you're thinking of starting a new company you need to wonder why. There's a good chance there's just not a market for what you want to do. On the other hand, if the markets absolutely saturated with different competitors, what are you doing better than them?

AlwaysNewb23|1 year ago

You should know what they are doing and keep an eye on them, but I think it's important to be careful not to copy them and solve problems in your own way.