My idea is not original

If your idea is 100% original you'd better be a magician, come from another galaxy or live for a thousand years.

It's very hard to have an original idea if you found it already, is really good because you can use that company to learn more about your customer and add value

It's a good sign your idea is not original, it means there (may) be some traction and people already making $ with the idea.

Find what you can do 10x better than competitors: 10x faster, 10x cheaper, 10x more effective. That should be the key.

I disagree, I think there are plenty of original ideas that have not been tapped into. The key thing is if it's a good or successful idea. I am very certain I have an idea that is not in the market and can completely disrupt a certain industry. Executing it is going to take deep pockets and lots of work. But I have zero doubt it will be a unicorn.

Competition is a good thing. Not having competition would be VERY scary. People chase opportunity, and if no one is chasing what you are, it's worth pulse checking

Learn from their mistakes and build better

I always thought that to make something your idea had to be original, but with original ideas your life is much harder. You have to educate users and sell them your idea, which is much harder than having a tool in an existing market when users already know about the "idea" and just have to pick your product to move forward.

If your idea is original, there's a:

• 0.0000001% chance that you're a genius and have struck gold on an idea so profitable that not one out of the world's 7.7+ billion population have thought of it; or

• 99.9999999% chance that you're wrong and the idea has no market.

Which do you think it is?

It's not a problem at all ! As people said, it validates your idea. It's all about the "certain twist" you talked about and execution.
I'm myself in a crowded market (chatbots) and I can assure you everything is about execution and the 10% innovation that makes your product better than the others.

Completely agree, no idea is going to be completely original. After spending years at this whole entrepreneurship thing, completely agree with the old adage that ideas are a dime a dozen, it's all about the execution.

Sounds like you made the right decision.

This is from Paul Graham: A "crowded market" could be promising, especially if "you can say that [your competitors] didn't have the courage of their convictions, and that your plan is what they'd have done if they'd followed through on their own insights."

(http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html)

Keep it up bro, It doesn't matter if the idea us 100% original or not.

If it's not original, you can still escape competition, you just have to be 10x better.

Bring your grain of salt to the mix, and you'll be fine! Hard work, passion dedication will make you unstoppable ;)

Good luck!

If someone else is making money doing the thing, good chance you can as well.

Same! The product I'm building during my one hour saas challenge, is not original at all.

It focuses on a niche and provides specific features for that niche 💪

Go for it!!

That means that there is a validated market for your idea, I believe that you can actually compete with an existing idea. Do certain things better than the competitors and you will be fine.

How do you plan to execute the idea?

After some days of work, I have made a workable alpha version of my service: https://www.userctrl.com.

What does it do?
userctrl allows you to target visitors to your website based on their browsing patterns/actions , with messages/discounts/upsells/marketing offers.

How does it work?

1. Just add a JavaScript snippet to the pages you want to track.
2. In your dashboard, create a visitor profile (clicks, selections, shopping cart contents)
3. Create your offer.
4. userctrl will handle the rest.

If you never want to lose a sale again, increase your conversion rate, increase sales, reduce customer acquisition costs and automate your marketing.

Then talk to me, I am looking for 5 SAAS owners who will like to try it out.

I posted an update to this thread here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/update-my-idea-is-not-original-e93dd675f8