Yostivanich

A lot of startup busi­ness mod­els involve build­ing prod­ucts that fill gaps in exist­ing plat­forms. There is absolutely noth­ing wrong with that, and there have been a few suc­cess sto­ries. But if you don’t own the plat­form, or if you aren’t wildly suc­cess­ful at fill­ing the gap you’re tak­ing a really big risk.

via The Dan­gers of Build­ing on Some­one Else’s Plat­form | trevoro.ca | blog. There is a def­i­nite and real dan­ger to merely fill­ing the gaps in other plat­forms, gen­er­ally what­ever you can do the com­pany build­ing the plat­form can do or buy the abil­ity to do.