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by chebum 3447 days ago
From my experience copying a feature is about twice cheaper than trying different approaches. You may not figure out a good way to implement it until you build first version and let people try it. You may need re-iterate to find perfect implementation. The copy-cat will come later to see what you've done and will implement the good solution without iterations.

The copy-cat may have more developers too.

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Just curious. Why aren't you copying these and ranking in all that money then?