[criddell]

> It's a paradox, but I've found that my best ideas now come from building other ideas.

Building and failing and building and failing might be a faster way of getting to something great than vetting, vetting, vetting, building, vetting, vetting building...

[tchock23]

It’s only faster if you have the skills personally to build (which is many, but not all, HN users). If you don’t then vetting is a better place to start.

[acuozzo]

You have to, at the very least, vet the problem domain first though, no?

Building hundreds of AviSynth filters won't bring in a cent.

[criddell]

Part of this is learning from the “failures”. If you are building AviSynth filter #742, then maybe you are skipping that step.

On the other hand, if you are having fun and learning something along the way, who cares?