The iTunes music store can be seen as a schlepp solved. Apple made tough deals with record labels and Bill Gates' comment "This time somehow he has applied his

The iTunes music store can be seen as a schlepp solved. Apple made tough deals with record labels and Bill Gates' comment "This time somehow he has applied his talents in getting a better licensing deal than anyone else has gotten for music." does seem like a symptom of schlepp blindness. Dropbox is also a case of schlepp solving I think. It solved the problem of syncing, backup and history maintenance and did so by going all out on integrating into OS file system interfaces (findEr, explorer, whatever) with all their quirks. Maybe we should start a "schlepp exchange" at HN where people posts their schlepps that they don't want to work on and whoever else does picks them up and runs with them.