[EnKopVand]

> The only fundamental way for a business to make more money is to invent actual, new feature and business models.

I’m not sure this is fair for services like Airbnb where what they sell is conveniences.

Their entire product existed before Airbnb. It even existed before the internet. What Airbnb did so successful was that they branded themselves with a good product that disrupted the market by being easier to use.

The thing about disrupting markets by selling easy of use, is that your competition is already well versed in the market you disrupted. Some of them may do the dinosaur but others will take your ideas and try to make them better. If you don’t continuously improve the ease or use of your product, then people are going to download eurobooking or whatever other options there are now instead.

You know this, because you’ve likely done it yourself a million times with various applications that do the same thing, but some find a way to be easier to use.

Obviously these companies are going to want to find (or invent) new products to get included. But that is typically more of a non-software quest that eventually leads to some of the engineers being tasked with building what the marketing/sales/business process people find.