[ExI] self driving cars

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Write the app, and become a very wealthy person.

Pff.  Several have already been written.  They're
languishing in obscurity, so you would never (yet) have
heard of them.  Avego, for example.

*Successfully market* the app, and then you may get
riches.  But this takes overcoming the down side of
the network effect (such things are of little use, and
therefore have a hard time keeping active users, while
they have few active users).

For these sorts of things, you can generally assume
the app has been written, but the circle of users is
not yet wide enough that you would have heard of it.
Some creative googling will usually find those who
are developing it - once you have the idea and can
thus come up with search terms for it.  There are
exceptions, but googling (if you try at least 5 different
terms for the idea) will rarely return a false negative
here.

This, of course, presents the problem of how to
relate to awesome things that you haven't even
thought of, and thus can't search to find.  But once
you have thought of it, you can then see if anyone's
doing it.

-Adrian