I think you're right in the sense that there is such a thing as too niche, and "don't be too niche" is both true & a
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But "don't be niche, fish where fish are, target big broad markets with obvious customers" is IMO bad advice for starting bootstrappers
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Justin, I'm sorry but those points just aren't true (except the userfeed thing, no idea there). It isn't per se harder to build a profitable business in a small market (talking low # customers, not low $). <100 customers isn't riskier than >500 ...
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(assuming all customers pay roughly same amount) - agree that this breaks down below ~10-50 customers though.
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This isn’t wrong. The feedback market is huge (w/lots of competition) but we decided to choose a niche that that we feel is going to get much bigger.
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Wydaje się, że ładowanie zajmuje dużo czasu.
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But:
"Bootstrapping is already hard, don't make it harder!" – Jason Cohen
5 customers is inherently more risky (and generally not a good fit for bootstrappers).
A company with 5 customers is probably an enterprise play.