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There are plenty of B2B opportunities where it just doesn't make sense for an open source competitor to emerge. There are plenty of hobbyist programmers willing to work on operating systems. Accounting systems? Way fewer. International export compliance? Zero.

There is plenty of opportunity in boring, unsexy niches. We have enough CRMs and Jira clones though.

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As someone working in a niche area, I can confirm. It's shocking how little tech adoption there is in my industry. Plenty of low hanging fruit.

However I still sympathize with the parent comment. The niche-industry-exception state of affairs will become less true over time. And then you're left with the same set of incentives (minus dedicated hobbyists).

Without going into too much details, could you share some niche areas? And what kind of tech adoption are missing?

Please point the way!

Even with a zillion Jira clones, Jira is doing quite well and growing. Maybe one day some OpenJira clone thing will be dominant but it could be 10-20 years, which is about how long it took Postgres to rise to relevance alongside Oracle

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