Hi guys,
I have an idea for a website that is original, I've not seen anything that does exactly what I intend to do. I don't think it's amazingly groundbreaking and will change the internet as we know it, but it's my humble idea that I think could potentially serve some people. I'm coding from the ground up using HTML, Javascript, PHP, SQL, and CSS. It's quite a bit of learning and effort, as I'm not terribly experienced with all these languages and have to do it all myself.
Now I had a conversation with a friend of mine who knows some big names in the web development industry around where I'm at. He said what sometimes happens is that companies might see my website and like the idea. So all they do is implement the same idea but make it bigger and better, and I would just be left in the dust. Making it bigger and better is definitely an easy thing for a company to do because I'm just one person, and inexperienced to top it off, while they have teams they could dedicate to this matter.
Is this a major concern for web developers, and is it really that hard for the individual to flourish without thousands spent in efforts against such advances?