[clintavo]

I remember reading a book about writing by Stephen King. He talked about innovating by combining strange ideas. An example he gave was that a book about plumbers would be boring and that science fiction was a crowded competitive market. But, he said a book about "Plumbers in Space" had the makings of a great story.

So, try to combine something you LOVE with something you admire.

Maybe you love cooking, maybe you admire Facebook. How about "Facebook for Cooks?"

or, "Wordpress for Restaurants", "Twitter for Travelers", "Google for Mechanics"

Once you have the area you love, you can pick and choose ideas from the leaders in the tech space and bring those that make sense into your niche. Make them easier to use for your audience, refine them, make them your own.

That's kind of what I do at FASO with art as the thing I love. BTW, someone else on this thread described us as niche photo sharing for artists - that's actually not what we do. We're more like "Wordpress for Artists", except that we predate Wordpress so technically Wordpress is like "FASO for Everyone Else". :-)