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There's only so much water in the well, though, and they might well be close to that limit. It's not an infinitely growable market, it's a niche product. True, the niche has gotten quite large in recent years, but at this point it's at least as likely to shrink as to grow.


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Sure, but that's a small and shrinking market niche.

I'm not sure that this product will become massive, but you can find your niche.

Sure, but that’s a problem with the marketing, not the niche being too tight.

Maybe, but it's still going to be a very niche business.

I think at this point, unless your product is pretty niche, it's just going to get swallowed by the big guys.

Seems like a very niche market - I think they may have increased their supply a little too much.

Still, that's a very niche market, don't you think?

That doesn't make it thriving though. It's a niche that continues to get smaller, albeit at a very slow rate.

I just don't see how this market will grow that much bigger.

There's also moats around many products which service markets which are simply too small for the big fish.

Interesting.. do you have reasons to believe the niche market will grow in the next few years?

True, but that is a very narrow market, isn't it?

I think over the past couple of decades the market has proven out that there can really only be one in a niche

Well that's a...niche market.

You have to wonder how saturated this market can get before it's just not viable anymore.

But unless it's a very, very small niche; why does it matter what the upper bound is. If you hit that, you've got a good problem on your hands.

Totally agree. I have a niche product that can be expanded further once it's gained critical mass. But, given the recent investor pitches I've done, there is some backlash from investors on that concept. They want to know is it possible to turn this into a billion dollar corporation at some point, and the reality is that in my niche market, it's not.


That's fine. But it's a shrinking market.

It seems there is a niche market in this...

Absolutely agree. Not to say that something bigger can't grow out of the niche. You see that all the time.
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