[tjpnz]

Look at the products from startups accepted into YC. Few (if any) haven't been done before and the same goes for most open source. Your goal should be to identify something that the others missed.

[waithuh]

Also, there are multiple solutions to a lot of problems. You dont need to be the only solution to a problem, you just need to be the best one.

[wxce]

True true. That makes sense.