Today's question comes from Laura, who needs help deciding if she should continue with her launch plans, given that a Google-backed venture has just launched something incredibly similar. What should she do?

I need you to weigh in using #AskPat338. Would you keep going?

The Google-backed project is http://digit.co/. Uber (https://www.uber.com/) and Lyft (https://www.lyft.com/) come to mind. I also discuss Meerkat (http://meerkatapp.co/) and Periscope (http://www.periscope.com/), Vine (https://vine.co/) and Instagram (http://instagram.com/).

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