Sure, in some areas it is much harder - but those aren't the areas where you're going to succeed. Look at Pebble - when they first started in 2008, no one was d

Sure, in some areas it is much harder - but those aren't the areas where you're going to succeed. Look at Pebble - when they first started in 2008, no one was doing wearables. The founder hacked a Nokia screen with an Arduino - that was the first prototype. You just have to find the areas that are still new enough that an amateur can be an expert. Nate Silver refers to this as finding "where the water level is low".