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[–] andrewstuart 10y ago ↗ Every time someone reinvents the same concept I post the same message pointing to the many people who have tried and failed to do this.Here is the last post I did about this, which itself leads on to previous posts about startups doing the same thing.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908067and before that:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628532It's an idea bound to be reinvented forever because people keep seeing nothing that does it and think they have stumbled on a new idea. The reason you can find a site doing it is because it's not an idea that works.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 13.9 ms ] threadHere is the last post I did about this, which itself leads on to previous posts about startups doing the same thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908067
and before that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628532
It's an idea bound to be reinvented forever because people keep seeing nothing that does it and think they have stumbled on a new idea. The reason you can find a site doing it is because it's not an idea that works.