Being too early can kill you. If you think your idea is awesome but too early, my advice is to keep trying for as long as it takes. Docker was not my first attempt at solving this particular problem :) [1] [2] [3]
[1] https://bitbucket.org/Foi3GraS/dotcloud-fork/commits/1
[2] https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets/commit/0af885a5266fba7...
[3] https://bitbucket.org/dotcloud/vm2vm/commits/2a34438989fbff0...