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The Slop School of Internet Success and other lies about cyberspace
A decade or so ago, people started realizing that every single idea on the internet has been done before. What started was a trend towards hyper-niching. Nowadays, you can find very specific blogs on Labrador Training raking in 200,000 monthly users, but if you'd start a "Dog Training" site today, you would never get to that point.
Dominic Monn • Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition – Dominic Monn
“Does anyone read Time or Newsweek (being sold to anyone who will take them) anymore? And when they disappear, who will really miss them?
The problem is that they are both slow and general. The world, on the other hand, is fast and specific. Is there a business here?”
-Seth Godin
It’s easy to think that the Internet Age is well-established, but the truth is we’re only getting started. Remember, it took nearly two decades for the Model T to develop the car ecosystem to the point where new opportunities emerged to offer differentiated vehicles at much higher prices and much greater per-unit profit (Mercedes-Benz, for example,... See more