[warrenm]

>8. The technology should provide a moat against every amateur trying to start a company. That’s why there are a million to-do list apps. That’s practically the first thing they teach in any course.

So you want to have a technology that's proofed against "every amateur trying to start a company" ... but you're a solo dev who thinks he's better than every other amateur trying to start a company?

This is also in direct conflict with your #2: >2. It has to have a competition. Again, I want to make money, not be a pioneer.

Can't have it both ways

[EUROCARE]

Seems like he's a professional dev. I think there's a lot of kinds of software you could make that would be way too hard for someone learning while doing it.

[altdataseller]

... there are millions of other professional developers in the world. There are almost 0 new products you could develop right now that many many other developers can't.

[EUROCARE]

Sure, but there might be a lot of products that people who are not developers yet won;t be able to develop. Todo lists are easy to develop even for beginners, PaaS cloud platforms not so much, for example.