Ask HN: What are some ways to watch people's behavioral patterns?
I'm not around people enough "a good sample size" to see what they're using/doing in terms of things related to technology. My question pertains to observing people and "foreseeing the next step" so to speak.
I guess Facebook could be one source. I'm "on the other side of the fence" in the sense that I am a developer so while I can make things, I don't know what to make. What do people need? What can I solve? That sort of thing.
Where is the data... I remember there was a Google service for "most searched words" maybe it's still around.
It just seems that many successful business ventures were based around solving something or predicting the next step/evolution in something whether it's tv shows or design of mobile devices.
One place I saw some "data" was on outsourcing sites in particular Amazon Mechanical Turk where you're paid pennies to do random tasks but one in particular you were a "human OCR" equivalent, you had to run through pictures and pick out which ones matched a specific category. That was awkward job.
Anyway if you have any thoughts let me know. Gotta sign me up for a rewards card hahaha. I had to look up what those were for. THEY'RE WATCHING ME!!!