These apps were added to iphone earlier but the new version of iphone ships them as features.Something similar can happen to TweetKnot (and they should make money somehow before that happens)

So, there is always a chance that an innovation is being cooked within “Copy an idea” ..and its the time which give it flying colors…

I would in fact say that only people with good money want to copy idea as they could pump money in marketing…Pl correct me if I am mistaken in my opinion

I have observed this all the time: That most “entrepreneurs” are so seduced by their idea that they end up applying motivational principles to situation which cannot take them.

Rohan, all that is matter is “Success”. Ok that facebook is copied, but enterpreneurship lies in the fact of “sense of timing”, being at the right place and an eye to spot the opportunity. Whethar you do it as an hobby and otherwise is I guess irrelevant.

And, as said in Gita..what matters is “Karma”..without giving too much relevance to so called and misused by so many as “Heard mentality” or “Me too” for many upcoming ideas…

If the guy involved has that level of faith, forget about idea, a mountain could be shaken…

So, Rohan, you might want to look into why you failed. Probably you gave up too early by giving lot of importance to immediate result without even harping on how to innovate and create killer value addition for the user…

cheers!

Facebook was a copied project…… not a hobby…. Zuckerberg stole the code…. we all know that…..

I agree that twitter is one of the many startups not making money….

But I think it is not important for startups to make money on day1 …… if the response is good….. it will be a good take over candidate.

I would like to make another point here. I am referring to startups in general, not specific to the one covered in this post:

The herd mentality is just too common. There are very few startups that will actually add value to the end user, and much fewer that will actually make even decent money. More and more startups provide the same solution to the same problem. Finally, it gets reduced to just “Hey! my site is coded and designed better than your site” rather than “Hey! I solve this problem quicker than you”. Web 2.0 may have simplified procedures, but doing business with it is the challenge. It does not take more than 2 months to code(read as rip-off) a web application….but it takes months and perhaps years to make money from it. Selling the service is still a big challenge. Coding a application isn’t. Overall, it seems that the so called “entrepreneur” is more obsessed with what he can do rather what the end user wants. More and more “hobby projects” are being miscategorized as “startups” and people thinking of themselves as “entrepreneurs”.

My words may be harsh, but definitely not harsher than reality! And I am speaking in-general of the startup scenario.

I have left entrepreneurship(because I failed out of my own foolishness, but my luck shone in stocks) – but I will request every entrepreneur to take a hard-and-brutal look at whatever your business is. Don’t be in a haste to tag it as a “startup” and yourself as an “entrepreneur” until you really feel it can make some money. If not, let it be a hobby project. The illusion is that you are an “entrepreneur” is very dangerous. It like when you are too close to the object, you can’t look at it the way it looks to the world. Also, always allow the enthusiasm to wane off before deciding on an idea. When enthused, every idea looks like a million dollar one even if its not work a penny. After the enthu is lost, most just keep moving round-n-round in the loop and breaking out upwards is unlikely. Infact, most will lose momentum while in the look and totally break down.

Thank you, and sorry for throwing cold water on anybody’s enthusiasm.