Another way to work with ideas is to work on the technology stacks behind them. Want to implement a new kind of service but the underlying technology stack does

Another way to work with ideas is to work on the technology stacks behind them. Want to implement a new kind of service but the underlying technology stack doesn't work well for the idea? Work on that first, possibly in such a way that it can be sold or leveraged. For example, Ruby on Rails came from Basecamp, SproutCore came from Mailroom, and Redis came from LLOOGG.