... hurt early-stage founders. When you are in the early stage, you already doubt yourself enough. You are building, fixing, testing, trying to get users, trying to stay alive. Then you open LinkedIn, X, or founder communities and see competitors posting MRR screenshots, traffic spikes, and growth wins nonstop. And if you do not have built-in credibility, it hits even harder. You are not ex-Google. You are not YC-backed. You do not already have a huge audience ... ... sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes your product is actually better. Sometimes your users are happier. Sometimes your direction is stronger. But the other company is just better at turning random things into a growth story. We saw a competitor

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... know that. I wasn t a regular user myself, but I did test the app about a year ago. From what I m seeing in the comments, long-time users are understandably panicking. There are plenty of alternatives out there, but it seems like people are struggling to find something they can easily switch to. So I m curious - how did you use Pocket? And have you found a replacement that actually works for you? I wrote an article about ... ... collaborative alternative