Screenhero clearly has customers. See all the people on this thread that are sad that Screenhero is going away. You could get your first 10 customers just by contacting those people.
I'm not disputing that customer acquisition is hard but that's exactly why cloning Screenhero is better than doing any random idea.
Also, you would have to list a couple of those "excellent applications that die very fast" before I just take your word for it. Personally I see many not so great applications that do decent business and have never seen an excellent application that died.
> have never seen an excellent application that died
Really? Lots of companies with better/faster/cheaper products go under... I feel like most do. Very few products are so good that they sell themselves.
I'm not disputing that customer acquisition is hard but that's exactly why cloning Screenhero is better than doing any random idea.
Also, you would have to list a couple of those "excellent applications that die very fast" before I just take your word for it. Personally I see many not so great applications that do decent business and have never seen an excellent application that died.