Ask HN: just found a big competitor for my niche. What do I do?

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15 years ago

I have been talking with some local martial arts studios about building tracking software for their businesses using a SaaS model. As part of the research process I stumbled across this company:

http://www.mindbodyonline.com/ http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/mindbody

On one hand I feel like my solution will be a better fit for my customers, but this company provides a very compelling and similar solution that is already built.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you handle talking to customers about the competitor to learn how you could do a better job?

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