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As a developer, what am I supposed to do? We live in such a saturated world. Everything has been invented and reinvented dozens of times. Every book written and rewritten dozens of times. My (re)invention or (re)write will probably fail, because large companies have a near monopoly on resources. Specializing is equally unlikely to bear originality; how many academics devote their lives to trivial (if any) advances?

I want to get out of this industry.

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Look around at all the businesses in your area. Are they all unique? Of course not. Software isn't any different. Don't get fixated on the idea that a new software product has to be one of a kind.

I generally agree. However, one difference is that software does not necessarily have to compete in the physical dimension. This app works equally well wherever I live, whereas a local business is at least unique by location even if the same as others in every other respect.

Well, there is the L in URL. You can carve out your own location on the web.

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