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"I personally don't think this would have got any attention if it wasn't out of the 37Signals shop"

It likely wouldn't have, and wouldn't be viable for a 'regular' startup without an existing audience of people who've already bought web services and trust the brand.

Yes, there will be some non 37s customers who become customers because of this, but this will succeed financially primarily because of the already built-in audience.

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It doesn't make this product less worth executing by 37s right? What's wrong about bootstraping your next product by previous one?

There is nothing wrong with Bootstrapping subsequent projects using your last one.

I just believe that there is so little value prop in this (if you are even moderately competent using Google) that I have a hard time seeing it succeed at $10 unless the 37s name pushes it up.

No. I mean that they're one of the few companies that could actually make this work, because of their existing position and network.

I didn't say there was anything wrong with it.

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