[goodweeds]

Late last year I was in an incubator where Convore started. There were 2 other companies doing the same exact thing .. All of the YC companies were using HipChat, Convore seemed like "yet another copycat site to sign up for an account with". Chat is a solved problem. Let's move on.

[nkohari]

Nothing is a solved problem. HipChat's a great product, and in my opinion the current market leader, but there are always ways to innovate and disrupt. (That being said, using IRC probably isn't it.)

[mattdeboard]

You can't mean this literally.

[nkohari]

No, I do mean it literally. The wheel is a pretty basic invention, and yet tire manufacturing is a $140 billion industry that spends a great deal on research and development.

When you think a problem is solved, it's actually in a perfect position to be disrupted.

[functionform]

Are you familiar with the phrase "reinventing the wheel"?

[nkohari]

Yes. My point was that there's a huge amount of effort currently being expended to do just that. No one is trying to change the fact that a wheel is round and rolls, but from there, there's quite a bit of space to innovate.