The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It’s to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.而今天分享的这篇文章的观点是,好的创业 idea 应该是去找这些情况:
... situations we encounter in life that are completely and totally backwards because of some concession to reality that makes no sense.著名例子:Dropbox 创始人 Drew Houston 在他的 YC 申请表中说:
The ridiculous things people name their documents to do versioning, like ‘proposal v2 good revised NEW 11-15-06.doc’ continue to crack me up.回头看,很显然地,Dropbox 对文件的版本控制比上面这种通过文件名版本控制的做法高明。
Ubuntu 一开始要做的是 "Linux for human beings",专注桌面市场。其实,在服务器市场,Ubuntu 也是占统治地位的。Amazon AWS 或者 Rackspace 上最流行的 linux distribution 也是 Ubuntu。
这篇文章可以引导我们对 app 的设计、开发的趋势进行思考。 以后的 app 可能在桌面上没有一个独立的位置;以后的 app 会是一个信息流,通过 iOS 8 的 notification 之类的平台推送出内容。内容可以是一条微博,一个帖子,一条短信;无须打开 app,直接在推送来的信息上就能进行操作,比如转发、回短信、赞等。内容会智能地推送给你,根据你的位置,你的兴趣,当前时间,过往操作的历史等。
The idea of an app as an independent destination is becoming less important, and the idea of an app as a publishing tool, with related notifications that contain content and actions, is becoming more important.