[ohiovr]

I would like to know also. I have had one moderately successful product and I am not even sure why it was when others were not. I did put the most amount of effort into it. But since it was a somewhat early app I made out well in the app gold rush period. I have found that "If you build it, they won't come". One thing I have found in the software world is that great amounts of effort is put into features and areas which few people should care about when other great needs are unmet. Why did Apple spend so much time with a feces emoji when we don't have a machine based closed caption service for the hearing impaired yet?

What I would like to see is a website where the public itself develops a product or refines an idea so that a market is already in place before engineering begins. I would love to see someone do this with the Linux desktop. There are zillions of Linux desktops and great effort is put in areas where users wonder "what were they thinking?? We were happy with the way it was!! Why did you change it? Why didn't you put in this feature we all miss from Windows 7 or Mac OS?".