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Yeah for sure! At least I try to do this. It's that framing that I use when starting the competative search. Still, too often and well after I've launched, I find myself discovering significant competitors I wish I'd known about. Also sometimes it's hard to know what keywords customers will end up using -- which is often the source of my missing competitors I end up caring about.

Thanks for this. I've tried all the deep research systems; in every case I've tried they seem to find at most 20% of what I end up discovering is a more complete set of competitors. ChatGPT get's you a pretty obvious first 10%. Both are useful, but I've never seem them produce anything near a full picture.

See now that's amazing. Luck is such a factor in ... everything!

I know. My son joked about using already.dev to find out if I never should have built it the first place!

That's only how it seems. General purpose deep research just doesn't work as well.

Thanks for taking the time! I love these guys. They are definitely way more useful in that they are general-purpose. What we're doing is much more specific, and the results are very different. Try both and compare!

I have no doubt we'll soon get taken over by general-purpose systems. But for now, all we do is deep research to find competitors, and the results are for sure much better with us for that narrow use case.

A deep research system to discover if your dumb saas idea is already out there.

I got sick of starting a project only to later discover significant competitors or features of the marketplace I missed, despite looking. I can now do in minutes what used to take me days.

https://already.dev

Looks great! It was not obvious quickly enough what to do on the first screen so we gave up.

I love this! So little effort for so much outcome. In fact, I'll try it ... long shot but I'd love to join too!

https://already.dev -- find out if your idea, product or service is already out there and who's doing. Saves hours of research!

It's exactly "much" better!

I just came here to say that it's for this kind of super interesting and informative comment that I keep returning to HN, for over a decade now.

Thank you for this!

Note that the latest update (0.47.x) made this useful change:

Rules: Allow nested .cursor/rules directories and improved UX to make it clearer when rules are being applied.

This has made things a lot easier in my monorepos.

Yeah I don't get it. People used to YELL the same things at me when I was an early adopter of e-mountain bikes (now they are everywhere). What people don't realize, I find, is you get the same amount of exercise but over much greater distances. On my e-bike I routinely travel 60 miles in a day -- that's just not possible for me without being a full-time professional biker or whatever. I would totally use something like this just to go farther for the same amount of effort (and safety, I'm 47 etc etc) but while hiking. It would be awesome!

It's a pet peeve of mine to make a statement in the form of a question?

Yeah, the un-asked-for README.md in the middle of a sub-directory is getting annoying. Note you can create .cursor/rules to adjust things

I always wondered how they did that...

This is true, but I sometimes find myself, nonetheless, wishing in some game that I could stop, pull out a microscrope or something, and go muuuuch deeper.

I've thought a lot about this, but there is so much critical context that has to fit into your thinking. And it depends on your goals. If you are super ambitious and want to change the world, only big ideas will do. If your goals are more about money or lifestyle, $50,000 / month is the same no matter how you get it. The older I have gotten, the less interested I am in the scope and risks of change-the-world ideas ;)

Getting that kind of money from a big corporate job, I would guess, is a lot more hassle-ridden than if you did it on your own. I also think the competative context is important to understand.

I actually have been experimenting with a tool[] I made to very quickly get an understanding of just how competative the marketplace is for a particular idea -- big or small. I have a million ideas, prefer the "smaller" ones, and prefer to enter where there is a real market opportunity.

https://already.dev

Nope nope nope, With a decent head on your shoulders you can safely do all kinds of unusual that idiots would otherwise end up very troubled by. I've known plenty of people that get themselves into trouble through foolishness and folly, while more wise operators finds only un-regrets. Like how in the winter some people freeze to death and some people ski, you know?

I crashed a literal Greek wedding (in Greece!) once, waaaay out in the countryside, and I can confirm they were really super glad to have me.

I have a corollary: when I head out of my apartment/hotel/whatever, I assume I could be gone for a night or two -- you never know what will happen! This doesn't mean you need to lug around a bunch of stuff, but just enough basics to make it so you can easily say YES! at forks in the road that might require you to walk too far to get home that day, or stay overnight on a boat, or be out very late with a new group of friends. A toothbrush, change of underwear, and warm cost-thing, sunscreen, etc. Optionality is easy to prepare.

This resonates with me. I've recently come out of retirement, and really gotten back into programming and product building. I've done this a few times before, but even with experience, I STILL find it hard sometimes to not just dive right in and start building. Mostly, it's because I enjoy it so much.

Now though, things are different. After a throw away project to get back into things, I realized I could very nearly just build first and find product market fit second if only because building is sooo much quicker now.

I decided that over the course of a year I was going to try building 3-6 separate projects, and assume at least one will be successful. My most recent project I realized very late that it's probably going to be very hard to ever make much money; so for now, I'm giving it away for free, just to see how people use it (https://seikai.tv).

I've not just started a new project and for sure this one is going to be a unicorn!

Not very much. Who among is ever ALWAYS right? You have to consider his OVERALL accuracy.

I love this, but I'm not sure it's right. As for cults, people want to join them. It's more like any sufficiently sophisticated ideology is hard to distinguish from reality.

Heh, I made this comment and forgot to check back -- I'm always missing stuff on HN because of this!

If anyone is still paying attention, email me at hi@seikai.tv and I'll see if I can send you one.

Craziness. Strong work!

I have a tiny device that listens to conversations between two people or more and constantly tries to declare a "winner"

So not radically different, but hey, why risk ruining a good thing? I'm sure my kid will die if he doesn't get one.

I love the included legal timeline. Strong work!