[jatsign]

"You can go a long way if you avoid stupid mistakes."

I find this true whenever I decide to take on a new endeavour. If you can learn from someone else's mistakes, you're better off than 80% of the competition in ANY MARKET.

So many people have an idea to make money, look at the competition, and give up. But if you keep going just a bit further, you find out that most of the competition, which looked so daunting at the start, is actually awful.

[soorajchandran]

Correct! We always try a bit too hard to do great things - in fact avoiding mistakes itself will give you a significant advantage.

[gcc42]

Yep, agreed. Most of this advice is useful even if you're just building an open source project that you're passionate about, and your post helps a lot.

Nobody wants to build a product in vaccum that has no users, no matter how brilliant the idea.

[soorajchandran]

My other two cofounders are building an open source tool - https://www.chatwoot.com/. I'm sure they have used a lot of wisdom from this experience too.