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		SingAlong on Nov 16, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Realizing Your Idea Isn't Original I agree with everyone here who says its possible if done with variations and served better. But I am stuck in a similar situation. The worse part is to get the users of the competitor's service switch to mine. Coz the competitor has a huge chunk of data that's of value to the user. How do i urge the users to switch when the competitor doesn't have an API to access the user's data? If he had it then i could've built an app to import user data from the competitor's service.

lutorm on Nov 16, 2008 [–]

That seems hard, but aiming for getting new users to sign up with you instead of them is probably easier. (Unless you are close to market saturation.)

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