So I have built something that already exists...now what?
So this is actually cross posted from r/startups at reddit. I trust you guys more than the hive mind on this one.<p>Well, it turns out that the project that I've been working on for the past few months in hopes of escaping my cube one day has complete feature parity with another company's product! In fact, not only does it have complete feature parity but the other company's product has all the features that I wanted to implement. The company in question is squareup.com.<p>Question is...what should I do? Should I try to out-innovate them? Or are they so far ahead of the game that I should move on and find something else? I think I see some room for innovation in this space still; however, they've got capital, man power, etc. and I don't.<p>As of now I have a prototype that's good enough to show off, basically, that could be grown in to a beta pretty easily. So I don't have a huge investment in terms of time at this point; however, starting over on something else sounds kinda scary...<p>Anyway, I'm only any good with the technology part of this stuff, still learning the business/management end. Any advice that you guys can pass along would be great!