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HN has a Xerox machine effect and I'd guess a copy machine or two will be silenced by this post. Not so much the revenue numbers as the comments about copycats.

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there are already 2 well funded competitors. Regardless of whether it's a good business model or not for a solo/small company, you probably can't compete with businesses that don't have to make money for many years.

Can you please let me know which these two competitors are?

datanyze, not sure the funding

similarweb, $40m funding

Just looked at similar web and tested 3 sites I work with. They are pretty accurate on their traffic estimates. Anyone know how that is calculated?

I think they use DNS data to estimate the amount of traffic.

Estimated using samples gathered with analytics through third-party browser plugins.

http://support.similarweb.com/customer/en/portal/articles/13...

I'm the founder of Datanyze.

We raised $2M in funding so far, but we are bigger than BW (and I'm sure SimilarTech) in terms of revenue.

If your competitors are not making money, you don't actually have to compete with them. Without revenue and growth and/or profit, that money is not an asset, but a time limit, after which they are done. Being well-funded does not make a competitor significant - only their actions and their product can do that.

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