I think the "what would you pay to have solved?" question is why business-types are often better than technical-types. I meet very few technical-type hackers w

I think the "what would you pay to have solved?" question is why business-types are often better than technical-types. I meet very few technical-type hackers who aren't absolute cheapskates with any products and services that they can just clobber together with a shell script or two. Therefore it may be often more helpful to ask "What would my friends pay to have solved?"