Why are people so afraid of competitors ? For me this article is what make so many projects fail, they try too much. Sometimes, you just need to solve simple things to make people's life a little better.

It isn't about the competitors, it's about who come first with a viable solution.

PS: You not a scientist, you are not NASA, you will never be, you will never have the need to develop anything close to a space rocket in your life. And if you do, don't start a startup for god sake, do something more valuable to the human kind, please use you knowledge for much more important things.