[mindcrime]

There's an Alan Kay video out there, titled something like "How to Invent the Future" (or something close to that). It's in two parts, and it should be available on Youtube. In that video there's a part where he talks about good ways to come up with an idea for a new business. I'd try to describe the process to you, but I really can't do it justice. I'd say go find the videos and watch them and consider giving his approach a shot.

You'll know you're at the bit I'm talking about when he starts talking about the book Human Universals.

[tacon]

I liked that video, too. Kay suggested that there is a very long list of human universals, that almost all of them can be translated into a human need or want, and that very few had yet been mined for their business potential. I went looking for the list when I first watched that video:

http://willsull.net/resources/HumanUniversals.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/afc6/be60ad8e6995e98dc77093...

[yayadarsh]

Link for the lazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ

[kluck]

Thanks! I am reading HN for this kind of hints.