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Comment by BryanB55 | Hacker News Reader

I upvoted because I like seeing new projects/apps on hackernews and this one appears as though they did put a good amount of time into building the site. Sure it's been done before but most things worth doing have been. Although I can't think of many problems that hipchat or flowdock do not solve.

I'm curious to hear what others think is still an open web app market? Or what category of products can still be improved upon?

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If you want to truly add value, find large businesses to help. They're riddled with old software and inefficient processes. It's highly feasible to write custom software applications that can save larger corporations millions of dollars with a minimal amount of development time. The hardest part is:

    1) Getting them to recognize this.
    2) Coaxing out the pain points.
    3) Bypassing their bureaucracy (chain of command).

How do you find out what problems the business has?

Large business also means supporting old stuff. You can stop dreaming of HTML5 and start coding stuff working in IE7. Also, weirdo DMZ, weirdo User Right, weirdo proxy settings, ...

It is complicated, you have little clients that each represent a significant fraction of your revenue. They will pay well but drain your development team in pointless, unportable, customisations.

Large businesses is not a sexy world and companies catering their need are similarly not sexy.

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