Thinking of an idea is the first step and also the one of the hardest parts of a startup. I was lucky enough to talk to Steve Wozniak after his talk about idea generation. One of the inspiring things that he said to me was to think limitlessly. In other words, do not care what is possible and what is not possible.

Many times, I get trapped thinking inside the box of what web applications can do. I have a good sense of what you can do with PHP/MySQL, and have also revolved all my thinking about code. Rather than thinking about what is not possible, I think what about is possible. There are more things you don’t know! As a result, I get caught up with basing my ideas on what is already out there. This could be a reason why we see so many social-media-networking sites out there.

PicLens is an example of a product that I think is really innovative. It is just a FireFox extension that changes the way we view pictures. PicLens loads all the pictures on a page into a fluid gallery. Because I am not very familiar with FireFox extensions, I would have never thought that you could do something like this.

Think of the problem first, then think of what tools are available.

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