Hackers have now solved every problem they face? None left? This sort of awe-of-our-own-brilliance seems more likely to retard the progress of this community than advance it.

Er...

Not exactly.

My point was more that you will find a lot more fresh ground if you look farther afield.

Of course, there are a lot of great apps like Twilio that are concieved to make developer's lives a great deal easier - so I dunno.

>> "If there is an obvious product need to satisfy us, we would have already created it." Although you're generally right. I'd have to say if startup founders are working almost around the clock, and said product would take longer than 100 lines of code, there's a good chance that it's a project being worked on in someone's spare time or the idea has been left behind entirely. That said, I haven't exactly seen an example of either yet. I'm just trying to get a bit of feedback from the HN crowd, even though as you said, it's a longshot.