Cool Story, Bro (Milo.com's response to Google Product's blue dot specials)

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I'm second from the left, in the picture.

I'm not sure if they'll make it or not, but Milo is one of those rare startups that actually solved a real problem for me!

I needed to buy a laptop battery within three hours in Atlanta GA and had no idea where to go. I messed around calling stores at random, finally in frustration I gave Milo a try. It worked on the first search! Solid work in my opinion.

Nice, but the claim to welcoming the competition doesn't ring true. They welcome the competition the way I welcome a knife fight. It might be exciting and will make a great story if I'm still alive after it's over.

Except it's not like that at all, right? It's a weird analogy. It's more like if you spent lots of time and effort implementing an idea, and now Google agrees that it is a great idea to the point of doing it too. It seems like good news to me.

Didn't go well for Kiko.

Come on, think about it seriously. They probably already knew their idea was very good or else they wouldn't be working that hard on it. Google's joining their market does not provide them much information. However, the odds of them being killed be a competitor probably increase by more than a factor of ten from the world where Google was not copying their core feature.

I'm second from the left, in the Cool Story, Bro picture.

Hacker News becomes 3rd grade.

So does your mom.

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