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It seems to imply that you could just find things that suck, make them better, and people will come.

• logicallee 13y ago
  OP seems to be reading "figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't suck" as "imagine a way that wouldn't suck." 'Figure how to do it' is nice and specific: for a physical product, figuring out how to do it so it doesn't suck includes manufacturing plans. For things that have a network effect, figuring out how to do it so it doesn't suck includes having some marketing plan that lets you get it off the ground. e.g.: big launch; minimally seeded community (e.g. for dating, find every world war I reenactment enthusiast to join - maybe htere are only a few thousand of them - and iterate on them to begin with); fake having the network effect already; or simply piggy-back on someone else's network through some kind of arrangement. "Figuring out how to do it" includes, well, figuring out how to do it. It's not enough to imagine how it might be better. You have to imagine and find a path to it that you can actually do. If you can't do it, pick a different idea! It's called a barrier to entry for a reason; you're not going to figure out how to create a solar-powered electric flying segway if you only have an arduino and a few scrap parts to do it with. If you can't think of a plan, then pick something you can think of a plan for.