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mthreat on Jan 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly To...

But as PG says:

"If you make anything good, you're going to have competitors, so you may as well face that. You can only avoid competition by avoiding good ideas."

-- http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

acdha on Jan 17, 2012 | [–]

That's only relevant if all you do is search. If you're using a commodity search engine, as so many people are, an AWS offering lets you shrink the number of areas which you have to think about so you can focus on your big ideas.

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