pcopley

I had an idea a few weeks ago for a business/app/startup. Yesterday I found out there are both free open-source and VC-funded startups doing almost exactly the same thing.

As a technical individual without a cofounder, do you think it's worth getting into this kind of space as a bootstrapped company competing against both VCs and open source? I mean this as a general question and just posited my recent experience as an example.