yuska

You make a good point, though the ability to work with people you already know seems to at least partially depend on where you live. Having lived in several places, I've always found finding collaborators to be considerably easier on the coast than elsewhere (in the US).

Unfortunately we're bootstrapped, so acquiring them doesn't seem feasible right now.

Possibly, but that seems to make the assumption that there's a direct correlation between your competitors' success and your own. I'm not certain that there is one.

As someone creating a similar platform (Kicklet.com), I'm curious. Historically, are failures like this reliable indicators that competitors should reconsider their business as well?