Re:Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a ...
by losvedir on Friday July 25, 2014 @02:10PM
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Ha, fancy seeing you here (if that username matches up with a certain athena account)...!
That's a very good observation about becoming an expert at a particular niche. The same thing sort of happened to me one summer, when I researched so-called "Blue laws" in the US. Spend a summer diving through microfiched historical laws in the library and soon enough you know more than anyone else in the world on the subject! It's quite an interesting feeling.
However, as hmslydia said, I think an API could be a good niche here.
That's a very good observation about becoming an expert at a particular niche. The same thing sort of happened to me one summer, when I researched so-called "Blue laws" in the US. Spend a summer diving through microfiched historical laws in the library and soon enough you know more than anyone else in the world on the subject! It's quite an interesting feeling.
However, as hmslydia said, I think an API could be a good niche here.