[clusmore]

You are basically describing the Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon decision from Joel Spolsky's blog [0].

> Both models work, but you’ve got to pick one and stick to it, or you’ll find things mysteriously going wrong and you won’t quite know why.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...

[heterodoxxed]

20 years on, it feels like everyone should be strongly considering the Ben and Jerry's model. Even if there is literally no competition in the field, the threat of Google or Amazon or Facebook throwing buckets of money and top engineers to put a company in the grave before it's even properly born is more of a reality than we ever could have imagined in 2000.