Why the Biggest Innovations Come from Boring Problems

Posted by lorthemar on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:36AM
from the jotform.com dept.

https://www.jotform.com/blog/boring-problems/

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Re:Why the Biggest Innovations Come from Boring Problems by defertu on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:37AM (#26954185)

It is always true. People spend so much time around hip tech but people who are actually making money is spending time on solving boring problems..

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Re:Why the Biggest Innovations Come from Boring Problems by HenryDobson on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:40AM (#26954204)

I mean yeah. It might be me experience but even in hip tech, it's the founders and the outward facing teams that get all of the fun.

For us developers, it's always the boring stuff, unless you're part of a magical team which I've not had the honor to join so far.

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Re:Why the Biggest Innovations Come from Boring Problems by defertu on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:58AM (#26954304)

That's because only a small portion of users in the world have interesting problems :) I mean if you are solving their issues with new tech that's good. But I found this is not the case and many of the startups that go unicorn are coming from the same source of idea...

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Re:Why the Biggest Innovations Come from Boring Problems by ermone93 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:25AM (#26954489)

To generalize this like that is quite wrong IMO, then you also think that the creation of social media platforms came out of boring problems?

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Re:Why the Biggest Innovations Come from Boring Problems by mratsim on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @08:08AM (#26954813)

The biggest innovation for me would be solving clickbait titles. Would absolutely not be boring.

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