I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.
From Mike Krieger
It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.
People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.
People want to share photos with only their friends and loved ones.
The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.
Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.
When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.
Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.
Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.
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