[pjio]

I sometimes wonder if the best way to dominate a market would be to grow sustainable and wait out the competition until they crash themself with their self sabotaging strategy of unhealthy, exploitive behavior. This article was just, what I needed to read today.

[n4r9]

That would be sweet. The sad truth is that a big company can coast on unhealthy exploitative behaviours for many years; perhaps decades.

[ozgrakkurt]

This doesn’t apply to vc funded startups

[GoatOfAplomb]

I think Fogbugz sort of tried this? I guess it still exists. But it certainly hasn't "won".

[lmm]

Yep. If anything VC-funded sales-heavy Atlassian ate their lunch.

[mamcx]

Others said don't work, but mainly if you aim too high.

THIS is exactly how you survive as small/solo company/consultant.

In fact, all my customers wish I have more time to redo most of the tools that they use. (Tipical scenario: "Hey your app that make invoices is neat, why you don't just add a module for our industrial process and because we want to integrate all and you need to add email capabilities then just add a word processor that is like excel, but good")

The "just add" is not only being naive or greedy, sometimes people dream that the few ones they can actually rely could do all already...

[klabb3]

This is pretty much Valve, no?

[Yizahi]

More like GOG. Valve was an outlier due to first mover advantage. GOG is what people are describing here - company tries to compete in the already established market by providing a "fair" service. If I remember correctly GOG is struggling to survive at all.

[adastra22]

Unfortunately the wait-it-out strategy typically works the other direction.

[mananaysiempre]

Feels like this is a finance-fueled version of the age-old stratagem of dumping, but existing laws against that were not written with it in mind, and in any case would not work fast enough for the good-faith competitors to remain afloat.