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Ultimately, you are right. Innovative proprietary tech just doesn't matter in software. I want to believe it does, so I don't feel that I've wasted my life learning to build software. Seems like hardware and medical are the only places where innovation creates value. A software company being no different from a salty snack company is sad to admit. On the other hand starting some new brand of potato chips or soda can't be any worse than making a webapp to squat a SaaS microniche that you don't care about.