Col and Dan are both in-between breaks and decided to catchup to see how things have been progressing.

In today's episode we cover:

• Getting back into hobbies - Warhammer and BasicFantasy RPG
• Col's business partner, Charles, has completed a rebuild of the Userlot marketing website, and it's looking good!
• Dan has an MVP and is prepping to start alpha testing
• Designing a database model for flexibility in handling SaaS subscriptions
• Getting involved in the Customer Success Australia community

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When it comes to building a SaaS product, one option is to build a tool, or a service or some sort of enhancement to an existing platform.

• Is this a good thing? Can it help you?
• Are there risks involved? What can go wrong?

On today’s show, we talk about some of the pros and cons of setting up shop on top of somebody else’s lawn. We go into why it works and what benefits you can get. But importantly, we also consider what could go wrong and how it can impact you.

Things we cover:

• What does it mean to build on top of a platform?
• Examples of products people have built based on other platforms.
• Why would you build on top of a platform? What benefits are there?
• What are the risks? What is 'Platform Risk'? What can go wrong?
• Some Less-Obvious Sources of Platform Risk
• Col & Dan's opinions about building on other platforms.

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Shout out to Morten Stensland for the inspiration for this show's topic - We discuss the ethics of copying and cloning in Indiehacking.

• [02:00] - Userlot Catchup
• [06:36] - Dan's Catchup
• [10:49] - Shoutout and Intro to Main Topic & Disclaimers (copying in Indiehacking)
• [13:50] - Big picture - Layers of Innovation
• [15:55] - Copyright, trademarks, Patents etc..
• [17:25] - Innovation, Inspiration & Imitation
• [19:15] - Previous Startup Experience
• [23:07] - Drawing line at deception
• [32:45] - What happens if you've been copied
• [38:34] - What happens if you are copying?
• [43:00] - Outro

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