[DjangoReinhardt]

Respectfully disagree. The key phrase in your response is: "all else being equal"

When it comes to marketing what you've made, you do get the first-mover advantage but that's about all you get.

I've made many a useful, problem-solving prototype in my spare time (and even 'launched' a few of them among close friends and family) only to see the same thing going big a month later. Except, it is someone else who happens to have made the same thing a; they just manage to push it a lot better that I ever could. It also doesn't help that I'm really bad at the business side of things.

I really need to find someone who can do that for me and my ideas/prototypes... :(