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by Cherian_Abraham
5579 days ago
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Two things: First, some one else who overhears your idea may not exactly share your enthusiasm, even a competitor. It all depends on whether they see it as being equally groundbreaking as you do. Which may be good or bad, considering how informed you are. Secondly, even if they do steal your idea, the end result could be quite different. Just like two people hearing a story and taking away two different interpretations of it, so shall two people who start with an idea, arrive at two totally different implementations of it. Ideas are inherently cheap. The determination to bring it to the people, the team behind the idea and some amount of luck all play a more important part than the idea itself. Which is why YC looks more at the team dynamic and your perseverance than the idea itself (which is not to say that they dont). |
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Exactly. Notch (of Minecraft fame) recently expressed a desire to make a game that's something like a fantasy RPG version of Football Manager. I'm really, really tempted to steal the idea and make something with it.
Because I know that whatever I make with that simple core idea will be utterly unlike someone else's creation with the same idea. It's just a germ of inspiration; all the important details still need to be worked out and actually implemented. It's probably not true for every market, but similar games can happily coexist unless they're really identical clones.