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Sounds more like survivorship bias than actual good advice.

It only makes sense if you are selling a unique product. Even then though in most online niches are you going to have similar products that people are considering. For example this Drip comparisons page is a waste of time to create according to the above advice: https://www.drip.com/comparisons

That’s just content marketing, nothing to do with thinking about competition, although that’s what you’ll be doing if you write that.

I'd like instructions on how to recognize emails from each of those spamming companies and block them.

What about it makes it sound more like survivorship bias?

Because people whose startups tanked due to them not keeping an eye on competitors are likely under-represented in the category of "things Hacker News pays attention to".

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