ASK NH: For a startup, how many competitors is too many?
I believe that my startup will be better in some ways than some of them, e.g. I will definitely have a better backend algorithm, since I design Machine Learning algorithms for a living, and I will have about three features, which these startups have individually, but none of them have all of them on one platform (I am not even sure if this is an advantage, but I like minimalism, so I will try not to make it too clustered and will be introducing them one after the other, not at once, and they are all related to each other).
On the other hand, I am not the best designer, so until I start having a revenue, the design will not be as nice as some of these VC backed startups, and of course, I won't have as much press as them, so I will have to do my own marketing and advertising.
I know that having competitors is not always a disadvantage, but this is scary for a few reasons, 1.) I didn't know Facebook had bought one of these startups, so I am sure they have plans to enter this area 2.) 10-11 competitors seems a bit too many 3.) I really love this idea, and I just want to keep on building it, but I am scared that it is going to fail due to these reasons, so I am finding it vey hard to be motivated right now, I am still at a phase where I could just quit this, before I put too much work into it for no reason and venture on to a new idea.
So, what do you think? Am I doomed to fail?