It's as mindcrime says. When I hear/read people asking for ideas (or bemoaning the lack of one) I get a bit sad. I get sad because ideas come from experience.

It's as mindcrime says. When I hear/read people asking for ideas (or bemoaning the lack of one) I get a bit sad. I get sad because ideas come from experience. Not technical experience (although that's a good source too), but life experience. Snowboarding. Working a part time job. Doing Krav Maga. Working for a huge, ugly corporate. Each of these is the source of an awesome idea I have (I have seven that have legs). Here's one of them. Go talk to a !good! DTP guy at a media company like Ogilvy[1]. Ask him or her about the conflict of interest between the sales guy, the artist, and the DTP guy. And then think about a SaaS job-card workflow system for media houses that uses labels for tagging jobs, tracks changes to EVERYTHING, including hours spent on a job per person and job stage, provides an audit trail, and approvals process. These guys have serious pain. I've got a conceptual architecture I'm happy to share. [1] I choose Ogilvy in particular for two reasons - first obviously, because I know a good DTP guy at Ogilvy. Second, because they're one of the largest media houses in the world, and still have problems with something as simple as getting a print ad campaign out the door for say, British Airways.