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This is bar none the saddest comment I have read on HN in recent memory. Do that many of us feel that helpless and useless? Almost every tech we use was started by a single talented and/or dedicated person with the support of a small group of similar people.

This is that small group of similar people, and you may be that person.

We exist. Change is real. Do something.



Its not that easy

We are a small startup and we were outpacing 2 of the 4 giants

They resorted to outright illegal stuff

manipulation of search engine results not delivering our emails when it was to their email service hacking attacks click fraud on our ads

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The REAL problem is not that they have monopoly status and cannot be outpaced

The real problem is that they abuse their monopoly position, do illegal things, and get away with it

Now we are building

both a platform

and

our own search engine

Consider the absurdity of that

Instead of just building a better product (which we had) and being able to win and/or compete based on that

We have to literally build our own entire ecosystem

How many startups can do that?

Should every tech company that happens to be competing against the big 4 monopolies be expected to do that




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