# Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate?
This idea requires executing well in several somewhat orthogonal directions, and missteps in any torpedo the entire product.
For example, there's an academic/theoretical component: designing the protocol and app to behave consistently/recoverably when any power or ethernet cord in the chain could pop out at any time. There's a gross Win32 integration piece (ditto for a Mac port). There's a mostly Linux/Unix-oriented operations/sysadmin and scalability piece. Then there's the web design and UX piece to make things simple and sexy. Most of these hats are pretty different, and if executing in all these directions was easy, a good product/service would already exist.
I'd find it hard to believe that there isn't some very tricky stuff being done in the clients which gives them a big competitive advantage over competitors that pop up.