{"id":139387,"date":"2026-10-12T14:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139387"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:18:27","slug":"and-this-is-the-problem-with-esrthe-right-way-to-react-to-a-business-you-feel-has-become-predatory-whatever-that-means-to-you-is-not-to-do-anything-neces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139387","title":{"rendered":"and \u2026 this is the problem with ESR\n\nThe *right* way to react to a business you feel has become \u201cpredatory\u201d (whatever *that* means to *you*) is not to \u201cdo anything necessary to break your business model\u201d\n\nThe *right* thing to do is to provide a better alternative to solving the same pain and problems that the first business was addressing \n\nClean-room reimplementations are cute \n\nAnd technically interesting \n\nBut that is a pisspoor way to \u201ccompete\u201d\n\nAll that is is mere feature parity \n\nFeatures are marketing fluff\n\nWhat matters is whether or not the problems someone is trying to solve can be solved better than the way they have been"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">and \u2026 this is the problem with ESR<\/p>\n<p>The *right* way to react to a business you feel has become \u201cpredatory\u201d (whatever *that* means to *you*) is not to \u201cdo anything necessary to break your business model\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The *right* thing to do is to provide a better alternative to solving the same pain and problems that the first business was addressing <\/p>\n<p>Clean-room reimplementations are cute <\/p>\n<p>And technically interesting <\/p>\n<p>But that is a pisspoor way to \u201ccompete\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All that is is mere feature parity <\/p>\n<p>Features are marketing fluff<\/p>\n<p>What matters is whether or not the problems someone is trying to solve can be solved better than the way they have been<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2109649133157945527\">Oct 12, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>October 12, 2026 at 10:15AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and \u2026 this is the problem with ESR The *right* way to react to a business you feel has become \u201cpredatory\u201d (whatever *that* means to *you*) is not to \u201cdo anything necessary to break your business model\u201d The *right* thing to do is to provide a better alternative to solving the same pain and problems &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139387\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">and \u2026 this is the problem with ESR<\/p>\n<p>The *right* way to react to a business you feel has become \u201cpredatory\u201d (whatever *that* means to *you*) is not to \u201cdo anything necessary to break your business model\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The *right* thing to do is to provide a better alternative to solving the same pain and problems that the first business was addressing <\/p>\n<p>Clean-room reimplementations are cute <\/p>\n<p>And technically interesting <\/p>\n<p>But that is a pisspoor way to \u201ccompete\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All that is is mere feature parity <\/p>\n<p>Features are marketing fluff<\/p>\n<p>What matters is whether or not the problems someone is trying to solve can be solved better than the way they have been<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-139387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139388,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139387\/revisions\/139388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139387"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=139387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}