My advice? Attend some hack weekends, build lots of stuff, see what draws the eye in demos and decide if you're interested in something related. Rapid prototyping with a readymade set of alpha testers.
We had already been thinking about doing something like this. And we realized that if we made ideas inexpensive and quick to implement, it would make our life easier and our startup more viable (analogy: git branching.)
How would we do that? Select, prototype, distribute and collect feedback. Selection being the key here (no chicken/egg problems, no enterprise software.)
We hope to primarily use 'Show HN's to distribute them and gather alpha users.
Does this sound like a good idea? Should we go ahead?
CIS? Center for Internet and Society? Has it held any hacking event recently?
My email id: vedanta5srj@gmail.com