[hasenj]

> But for some reason, I have this terrifying feeling that 3 months into the project that a company will have the exact same product and that's 3 months of work down the drain.

Most of my ideas are for things that already exist but I think all existing solutions suck.

So no, I'm not terrified. When facebook came out, there was myspace already. When tumblr came out, there was blogger already (not to mention wordpress). When posterous came out, there was tumblr already.

When Ubuntu came out, there was already debian and red hat and suse and tons of others.

I can't think off the top of my head of a single successful product whose success was solely based on it being the first to arrive to the market.