<story><title>41,000,006 reasons why I think we&apos;re in a bubble</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/41000006+reasons+why+I+think+we+are+in+a+bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>To add, approximately one half of people in the real world share a common demographic category with a sliver of HN users and a fraction of a sliver of what we create.&lt;p&gt;Women have money.  Go take it.  Nobody else wants it in tech.  (Well, aside from Groupon, Zynga, and a few other companies that missed the opportunity to make an iPhone app that you could wiggle to share photos.)</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>I don&apos;t know about the rest of the world, but we sure are in a bubble here at Hacker News.  There seems to be a real disconnect between what people want to build/invest in and what people in the real world actually need and want to pay for.  Just as sample of what I&apos;ve witnessed in the past few years:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Ask HN: How do you like my file sharing app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my social app for niche &amp;#60;x&amp;#62;?
  Ask HN: How do you like my twitter app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my iphone app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app that writes twitter apps?
  Ask HN: How do you like my game?
  Ask HN: How do you like my photo sharing app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my video sharing app?
  Ask HN: How do I monetize my free flashcard app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my app that helps other hackers to do &amp;#60;x&amp;#62;?
  Ask HN: How do I get traffic to my freemium app?
  Ask HN: How do I get angels/VCs interested?
  Ask HN: Look what I wrote this weekend!
  Ask HN: Look what I wrote in one night!
  Ask HN: Look what I wrote in 7 seconds!

  Customer 1: How can we sell through Amazon.com?
  Customer 2: How can we reduce inventory by $300 million?
  Customer 3: How can we increase conversion from 2% to 4%?
  Customer 4: How can we use software to reduce energy costs?
  Customer 5: How can we migrate one app into another?
  Customer 6: How can we get our phones to talk to our legacy apps?
  Customer 7: How can we take orders through the internet?
  Customer 8: How can we get our software package to do &amp;#60;x&amp;#62;?
  Customer 9: How can we reduce credit card fraud?
  Customer 10: How can we increase SEO effectiveness?
  Customer 11: How can we connect fulfillment and ecommerce?
  Customer 12: How can we increase revenue?
  Customers 13-200: How can we increase profitability?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;Women have money. Go take it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do they want?!? I could never figure that one out.</text></comment>
<story><title>41,000,006 reasons why I think we&apos;re in a bubble</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/41000006+reasons+why+I+think+we+are+in+a+bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>To add, approximately one half of people in the real world share a common demographic category with a sliver of HN users and a fraction of a sliver of what we create.&lt;p&gt;Women have money.  Go take it.  Nobody else wants it in tech.  (Well, aside from Groupon, Zynga, and a few other companies that missed the opportunity to make an iPhone app that you could wiggle to share photos.)</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>I don&apos;t know about the rest of the world, but we sure are in a bubble here at Hacker News.  There seems to be a real disconnect between what people want to build/invest in and what people in the real world actually need and want to pay for.  Just as sample of what I&apos;ve witnessed in the past few years:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Ask HN: How do you like my file sharing app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my social app for niche &amp;#60;x&amp;#62;?
  Ask HN: How do you like my twitter app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my iphone app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app that writes twitter apps?
  Ask HN: How do you like my game?
  Ask HN: How do you like my photo sharing app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my video sharing app?
  Ask HN: How do I monetize my free flashcard app?
  Ask HN: How do you like my app that helps other hackers to do &amp;#60;x&amp;#62;?
  Ask HN: How do I get traffic to my freemium app?
  Ask HN: How do I get angels/VCs interested?
  Ask HN: Look what I wrote this weekend!
  Ask HN: Look what I wrote in one night!
  Ask HN: Look what I wrote in 7 seconds!

  Customer 1: How can we sell through Amazon.com?
  Customer 2: How can we reduce inventory by $300 million?
  Customer 3: How can we increase conversion from 2% to 4%?
  Customer 4: How can we use software to reduce energy costs?
  Customer 5: How can we migrate one app into another?
  Customer 6: How can we get our phones to talk to our legacy apps?
  Customer 7: How can we take orders through the internet?
  Customer 8: How can we get our software package to do &amp;#60;x&amp;#62;?
  Customer 9: How can we reduce credit card fraud?
  Customer 10: How can we increase SEO effectiveness?
  Customer 11: How can we connect fulfillment and ecommerce?
  Customer 12: How can we increase revenue?
  Customers 13-200: How can we increase profitability?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elai</author><text>I know what you mean. When I&apos;ve suggested targeting a female demographic with things that are somewhat silly, but most women just go crazy over (seen by how many women get into similar thing in several businesses) I was dismissed out of hand.</text></comment>