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gscott on June 14, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask YC : How to find ideas for a web startup

If you are looking for something absolutely no one is doing then you are going to end up having to open up the whole market on your own.

I would suggest making something that exists, better. Something that people will want and will use because they are already trained to use it.

Go one step further and make sure that it runs on people's system tray as well as on the web, and on a mac, and linux.

xenoterracide on June 14, 2008 [–]

or in our case, we are applying and combining existing proven technologies into existing markets that haven't used this tech yet. Stay tuned for updates on how well we do, but if we fail it's not likely due to that.

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