LinkLog: What Kind of Software Would People Actually Pay For?

A great blog post and a discussion thread on reddit. Some snippets (read the blog for a very insightful discussion):

Software that re-defines a category (Google and Amazon come to mind)

Software that saves businesses (and individuals) money (figuring out the benefits to your customer)

Software that helps business earn more money (making it compelling)

Piggyback off where people are already spending tons of money (choosing your marketplace)

Become easier to choose and you become harder to leave (by building and managing excellence)

shrink a market or disrupt your competitors

Get bold initial customers who will take the risk and are willing to share their experiences.

You don’t have to be the guru of an industry; you can often make a huge difference by bringing a computational perspective to the domain (think how you can apply technology to solve real problems)

Find out what they have to do but hate doing and find a way to simplify or automate it.

This is the kind of blog post that I would book mark and read several times, think about it, find more similar ones. It will also be a nice exercise to keep this list some where and grow it based on actual experiences of successful products. Peter Christensen’s articulates so well some of the things I kind of know but never really reflected a lot about.

I think blogs are the best knowledge sharing network you can think of especially If you are lucky to discover ones like Peter’s.