I’ve been wondering about any new apps, systems, solutions that might become giants in future. Something like Fb in the past…there were/are multiple social networking solutions, but it somehow became the most popular, why?
What makes the system/ website/ application more popular than others?
I’ve also been following a blog about a new idea for web browsing. As they claim, it would be a new quality for net surfing. They are working on a layer that would give you a freedom, like you might see the Internet in a bird’s-eye view. Do you think it’s possible? Will it be successful try?
Remember that sometimes you don’t need to reinvent the wheel…sometimes it is enough to make that wheel more rounded
With this I mean that you may take an idea that already has proven to be successful but you may beat the original if you improve it, make it easier to use and/or make it cooler
I think that there’s a good number of factors and obviously being charismatic helps a lot. It makes the way easier and definately it can make the difference between success and failure. Not because it is essential but because it will make it happen sooner. And some business simply fail because they can’t wait anymore.
But, to be honest, I think that if you really studied your project and believe in it, it is a matter of listening to the people that tried your product but didn’t like it. If you listen to them, you will be able to know why you’re failing whether it is because you didn’t solve the problem (as you thought you did) or it is simply too complicated to use.
I agree that it goes like that: need - solution. Yet, no all solutions were successful, however they were similar. Like I’ve read recently about Dennis Crowley who might have been a founder of Twitter (thenextweb.com news), but he wasn’t.
Like before Fb there were similar attempts, and only fb became so popular!
I suppose it may be about being charismatic enough to convince people who didn’t realize they need something unless it appeared on the market. Or am I wrong?
I hope that it is not your blog or else I will have to delete the link (no self-promotion here allowed in SP, sorry). I clicked just to check and the good news for you is that… it doesn’t load
Yet, what makes an idea a success and profitable is as simple (or difficult) as identifying a need, solve it and tell every single person that there’s a solution, whatever it is.
Will this new way of browsing work? Don’t know. Maybe yes, maybe not.
Things like FB or Twitter didn’t solve any problem, they’ve created a problem and a solution, they’ve created their own market where none existed before. And they did it better than those who tried before.
Find a real existing problem and if you really solve it, you will succeed. There’s a lot of fantasizing going on these days, a lot of trying to be a visionary and hit it big, and that is not a bad thing, yet the most trivial problems are left unsolved.
For instance, why on earth there’s no decent solution for an email client that is easy to use, synchronize between several machines, and can cope with large number of email accounts/messages? It’s email, the primary way of communication over the Internet for most people. The problem is severe and yet nobody is even trying to solve it, instead we’re looking for new ways to communicate via Twitter, FB, or entirely new ways to browse web. So we have this influx of fads, hypes and wanna-bes while we still tear our hair off over the most trivial things.
Opportunities are all around you in the simplest of things.
