CollioureViews
Iron
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2025
- Posts
- 32
- Reputation
- 23
The brain-rot on this forum is reaching terminal levels, and to be candid, many of you will never succeed; your perception of what's required to ascend in various facets of life is completely warped.
Everyone is trying to be a pioneer. Every daily thread is some fucktard claiming they've found a 'hidden exploit' nobody else has seen.
Here’s the reality check: I have met, shaken hands with, and worked alongside countless people under 30 worth £2M, £5M, and £10M+. Do you know how many of them got there via a 'well-timed niche' or a 'secret method'?
Zero.
The biggest wealth transfers in history didn't happen because someone found an 'untapped market'. They happened because someone entered a crowded, saturated, god-awful market, slammed their dicks on the table whilst looking their competition in the eye, and simply refused to die.
Everyone is trying to be a pioneer. Every daily thread is some fucktard claiming they've found a 'hidden exploit' nobody else has seen.
Here’s the reality check: I have met, shaken hands with, and worked alongside countless people under 30 worth £2M, £5M, and £10M+. Do you know how many of them got there via a 'well-timed niche' or a 'secret method'?
Zero.
The biggest wealth transfers in history didn't happen because someone found an 'untapped market'. They happened because someone entered a crowded, saturated, god-awful market, slammed their dicks on the table whilst looking their competition in the eye, and simply refused to die.
| First Mover | Late Arrival | What happened |
| Friends Reunited / MySpace | There were a myriad of social media websites with huge user bases and massive valuations/sales before Facebook had even been conceived. Would you rather own stock in Meta or Meta? Meta? Perfect. | |
| AltaVista / Yahoo | Search was completely 'saturated' in 1998. Google didn't find a new niche; they did the boring math better, they did what you wanted better. YaWho? | |
| CyberCash / First Virtual Holdings | PayPal (Confinity) | There's a lot to be said about the PayPal mafia, but set that to one side. In the 90s, digital payments were a graveyard. PayPal didn't invent this concept; it became the gold standard. |
| Palm Pilot / Blackberry (bad boy OG, still got a box full) | Apple (iPhone) | The smartphone market was taken by the balls. Did Apple innovate? Sure. Were they the first? Fuck no. |
| Netscape | Internet Explorer / Chrome | Bro, just look up the browser wars here. |
When Google launched, there were already 14 major search engines. According to the logic of many people reading, Larry Page should have given up because the 'niche was gone'. Instead, they focused on building a better product with a tighter algorithm and persisted while the others chased ad-tech gimmicks- its competitors went for clutter, Google aimed at sharpening the real value, search. Even Yahoo, which was valued at over $125 billion at its peak, eventually became a cautionary tale of what happens when you take your eye off core execution. Google didn't find a gap; they out-engineered a room full of giants who had grown lazy and/or distracted.
MySpace had 100 million users when Facebook was still a college project. 100 million users. That's nearly triple the current population of Canada. The 'method' was already public. Facebook didn't win by being new; they secured an unequivocal victory by being a high-trust ecosystem and scaling with discipline. They watched pioneers like Friendster collapse under technical debt and poor scaling, whilst MySpace was sold to News Corp for $580 million, only to eventually wither into a ghost town. Zuckerberg waited for his competition to alienate their users with bad UI, security flaws, downtime, and shit gimmicks (fuck me, the MySpace customisation was outta control). By the time the 'pioneers' realized they were being hunted, Facebook had already turned a saturated social media landscape into a full-blown monopoly.
The Blackpill
If you are solely looking for an 'untapped niche', jumping between different 'methods' without paying mind to how you might set yourself apart within a market, you are essentially saying: "I am too weak to compete in an open market. I need to find a place where nobody is looking. I'm a pussy".
Spot an issue here yet? Let's say you make a buck in that 'hidden gem', someone more persistent than you will see it. If your only edge is 'being first', you have no edge at all.
Real wealth is built in the trenches of saturated markets:
Real Estate: Saturated for 2,000 years. Still makes the most millionaires.
SaaS: Overcrowded. The winners are just the ones who don't churn out.
E-commerce: You've got guys making £20k+/month selling fucking backscratchers by out-lasting the tsunami of dropship hobbyists.
If you can't identify that I'm not telling you to ignore innovating, you are done for. By all means, get creative- creativity is not a substitute for persistence. If you want to be a billionaire, yes, I concede, you will undoubtedly need a well-timed entry into a niche market, paired with a fuckton of luck and sacrifice.
If you are solely looking for an 'untapped niche', jumping between different 'methods' without paying mind to how you might set yourself apart within a market, you are essentially saying: "I am too weak to compete in an open market. I need to find a place where nobody is looking. I'm a pussy".
Spot an issue here yet? Let's say you make a buck in that 'hidden gem', someone more persistent than you will see it. If your only edge is 'being first', you have no edge at all.
Real wealth is built in the trenches of saturated markets:
Real Estate: Saturated for 2,000 years. Still makes the most millionaires.
SaaS: Overcrowded. The winners are just the ones who don't churn out.
E-commerce: You've got guys making £20k+/month selling fucking backscratchers by out-lasting the tsunami of dropship hobbyists.
If you can't identify that I'm not telling you to ignore innovating, you are done for. By all means, get creative- creativity is not a substitute for persistence. If you want to be a billionaire, yes, I concede, you will undoubtedly need a well-timed entry into a niche market, paired with a fuckton of luck and sacrifice.
