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Re:Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund by gizmo on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:13AM (#11454388)
Every time a new platform or a new device gets launched there are low-hanging opportunities aplenty. It is easy to overestimate how big the opportunity has to be in order to be worthwhile for a single programmer. Those opportunities don't get pursued by established businesses because they are too small, leaving the field ripe for the picking.
Re:Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund by zeemonkee3 on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:07PM (#11458468)
That's very true, I think there's a window of opportunity when a new device/technology becomes mainstream before it becomes commoditized/cornered by a few big players : thinking of the web, then mobile, now the app stores are saturated and very few people can make money from them. VR might be the next wave (although plenty of false starts in that space).