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by codegeek 1193 days ago
Overall ideas are hard to define because it takes a lot of experiments,pivots,redos etc to find product market fit which is 99% execution.

Slack started as a gaming company. The idea didn't matter. Many examples like these

Don't overthink this. It is not the idea. It is the execution. I say this as someone who has been running a business for 8 years and we are not at all close to the original idea. In fact I don't even know how to define the original idea anymore.