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by trevelyan 5459 days ago
I think it depends less on the features and more on the competitive landscape. If this guy needs to build a community he needs to rank in Google and get organic traffic. It doesn't matter if he isn't #1 as long as he can get in the top three or four results.

So a single competitor isn't a problem, but if he can't get good positioning because there are other sites he can't dislodge he's facing at best a long crawl to visibility, and is at a huge disadvantage competing against a larger team who already have community, content, ranking, revenues and domain age/trust.