Start with a Niche
fibery.io
fibery.io
Reading deep into https://fibery.io/about-us, it seems like they're a Notion competitor.
I think more companies should call out and explain the differences between their product and some of their competitors. Pretty good idea.
It's effectively a user-friendly database at the end of the day. I used it to plan my wedding and I love it.
This is the r/selfawarewolves of the UX community.
I think the video shows a bit better clue of what's going on, but it needs to be condensed. It's trying to show so many things that it has to jump to the next one while you're still absorbing the last one. Show half as much in 70% of the time.
Links: Anxiety, Build, Connect, Freedom
Clicking Anxiety,
The page is broken up into the sections: Try, Suffer, and Quit...
The footer on that page says...
* Being Self-centered * Boring * Really contact us? * WFH * They Suspended Trump
The work of a funny intern or ?
Looks like they also have CRM, but to be honest, I've never understood what that even is.
They had a unique opportunity here to write an article “don’t start with a niche”, but I don’t know if they have the success yet to prove it.
That's not a reason to stop sharing insights. They might be useful to someone in a way only you can rephrase them.
What you're saying is also how they shot down Galileo or Copernicus. That anyway we shouldn't go beyond rephrasing Aristotle, great scientist, who made so many basic mistakes (in hindsight) that we lost 1000 years of bitter senseless discussion just by the effect of his authority.
Fuck the greeks, if you can, that's how you find new ideas (but that's already the discovery of the 15th century renaissance, which triggered eventually the industrial revolution, so people figured that out - and if you're looking at why it's slower elsewhere, it's because they are still stuck in awe at their elders' insights, how long did it take me to convert my confucianist Chinese wife to the idea that "we can marry without me taking an overpriced mortgage over 3 generations" :D)
This is still pretty broad for it to be a niche IMO.
People who need to communicate with one another because not everyone is on exactly the same page (employee may not have the full context, late arriving founder doesn't know everything yet), and that communication needs to be specific enough to start implementing something, but not so specific that other existing processes would be better suited (e.g. a pitch deck).
...or something like that!
A niche is creating a product management tool targeted at SaaS companies building digital marketing tools.
I'm doing it for language learning, with the niche of couples, with myself as a user included. I re-read Crossing the Chasm a lot which covers starting with a beachhead, gathering your troops, and planning D-Day onto the market.
> VisiCalc (Excel predecessor, 1979)
> Facebook (2004)
This is an... interesting version of technological innovation history.
There are victors, and there are victors.
Fake examples: The general needed a wheel to move his cargo, so when he had the wheel invented, now the wheel was from an army niche. The king didn't want poop on his hands like a pleb, so he got someone to invent soap for him. Boom, the soap came from the niche of kings. Someone who needed to walk far, invented shoes. Boom, the niche for shoes was far walkers.
I see a lot of potential outside of my space since I'm operating at the level of a document + atomic transactions + workflow, so I may have something more broadly applicable. However, the burden rests with me to paint the picture for how that could work.