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by em-bee
899 days ago
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i agree with your points, especially the red flag. that's pretty clear. and the reason why so many offers exist also makes a lot of sense. i am not sure about the pizza comparison because that's a question of capacity and location too. in any given location there is only a few and maybe there is room for a sixth but not for many more. for a monitoring service the question is: what drives the diversity instead of everyone using the same one service? why would i trust a new service instead of one others have recommended? like email: there are thousands of email providers, but only a handful huge ones like gmail. is that different, or is it the same with monitoring services? i guess my question is: how would i break into the market and find my first customers? |
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It's the Field of Dreams model. Build it, and they will come. Do some basic marketing. Worst case scenario, you built an uptime monitor for yourself!
I'm not sure diversity has to exist, honestly. If I'll pay one service $10/mo for uptime monitoring, and you have an identical uptime monitoring service for $10/mo, then it's just a flip of a coin which one I'll go with, right? There's no differentiating factor other than randomness. So go for it. Build it. Put it out there. You'll get _someone_. And over time, you can iterate based on the needs of the demographics that have chosen you. Maybe the people gravitating towards your stuff are more interested in cron jobs than websites, or maybe they're monitoring competitors rather than themselves, or maybe they're keeping tabs on government websites. Who knows?
You don't have to have all the answers right now. Build something and see what happens, then iterate from there.