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Comment by Oxodao

1 day ago

Yeah, so there's no way to make a new company? Unless you're directly bought by Atlassian because they are "known enough"?

I don't know Lattice so I would not use it.

Offering a selfhosted or local version would probably help alleviate those concerns.

  • I'll be doing this as a priority. I wanted to check there was concrete demand for it first, but I've now had enough requests that I'll be doing it.

    If anyone wants to be updated when this is available, email me at davnicwil at gmail

YC has funded 5000 companies. from a quick Google search and only 20 have gone public and 3 of those have gone out of business

https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...

So yes, if you want to start a business your most likely outcome is going to be complete failure. Your second most likely outcome is muddling along in obscurity until you give up realizing you could make more money being an enterprise CRUD developer at a bank and not work as hard. The next outcome is you might get acquired.

Unless you are decision maker for a medium to large company, you shouldn’t have heard of Lattice.

But don’t you think before someone invest time in building something they hope to be successful they look at the landscape of others in their vertical?

There is a way: you have to make something that's better in a meaningful way, so that companies' management would want to SWITCH to it. And your new shiny thing also has to be compatible with all of the integrations, the ecosystem etc. that the current thing has.

I'm not even mentioning trust issues, when sensitive data is involved.

Doing anything less and hoping that companies would use your toy project is just wishful thinking. Sorry to be that guy, but please get real.