Also, TBH, in most cases, ideas aren't worth that much. The implementation usually takes hundreds of man hours, and ideas are everywhere. It's not that nobody thought of "a ride sharing app" or "a dating app" before, and that Uber or Tinder were the first ones there. It's just that they were so much better.
Exactly. Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's the execution that makes all the difference.
Also whatever your idea is, you're most likely not the first one to have said idea. Even Bitcoin was not a wholly new idea when it got started, but it was the first time someone managed to execute the idea so well that it actually took off.
So don't be discouraged by someone else working on the same idea as you. It will happen pretty much all the time. Look at how
they did it, and see if there's some lesson that
you can take away from it. Look at their project as a prototype of your own idea and try to improve on it.
And especially, don't give up just because someone else did it before you. If it were for that we wouldn't have the cornucopia of alt coins we have today, because hey, cryptocurrencies are already invented, case closed. So go for it. If you'd give up everytime you see someone else doing something similar you'll never get a project out.
