Indie dev's lesson: a map full of competitors does not prove market demand
Whole_Concern9435 · reddit · 2026-09-29
In a LinkedIn postmortem, the author shares a product lesson: seeing a market map crowded with competitors can look like validated demand, but it often signals a crowded, hard-to-monetize space. What actually needs validating is willingness to pay, not whether others are building the same thing.
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