There's no fire in the house. It's completely natural for people on HN to discuss what the next big thing might be, what we want from a new platform. Surveys? I

There's no fire in the house. It's completely natural for people on HN to discuss what the next big thing might be, what we want from a new platform. Surveys? If you want to do surveys, sure, easy to do with MTurk. But if discussing the next big thing is like discussing how to improve fire extinguisher design while there's a fire in the house, then what is doing surveys like?