What I learned from Lunch with Dan Shipper

Hey angryasian thanks for the feedback. Just to be clear, I didn't ask for this post to be written, or submitted to HN. But I'm really sorry you feel that way. It's honestly not my intention to spam the community. Every article that I've posted has been to share my experiences with the people on here and to get their thoughts/criticism about what I'm doing. I'm not an evil spammer from a country you can't pronounce. I'm a UPenn student who knows how to program and is trying to make it at startups. The beauty of Hacker News is that it's very hard to get anywhere if you aren't contributing anything valuable. The greatest part is that if I've stopped providing that with my posts they will never make the front page because people will recognize that and not upvote them. I would love to talk to you more about the competition in the market, your thoughts on Hacker News and anything else you want to talk about. My Skype is dshipper and my email address is dan@danshipper.com. My Google Voice number is (213)-784-0273. Get in touch any time :)

Note: I am NOT Dan Shipper.

You are entirely correct. Dan's product does have competition, and maybe the other products do have better price points. We have talked about these other offerings before our lunch discussion. Other people have mentioned this point to Dan already.

However, this post was not about Dan's product specifically, but it was about what I learned from him while he and I were talking over lunch. I did reference what Dan was doing a lot in the post, I will agree, but you could apply these ideas to pretty much any project a person works on.

Thanks :) that's the idea. I'm still at the point where I'm trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. That's why I've concentrated my efforts on doing a lot of small projects. I feel like if I keep doing a lot of different projects one has to work. And I think I may have found that with DomainPolish. Even though, as angryasian pointed out, there are already competitors. I think competitors in a small or new market are sign of proof that the concept works rather than a reason not to do something.