Over the past few years there have been some seriously successful and creative sites pop up. Ranging from the ones like YouTube who base themselves on a simple idea and stick to it. Others like WordPress who started off as a simple extension to another CMS, then grew to a fully featured system with a plugin and theme database and on top of all, use by millions all over the world! Along side these sites there have been millions of sites/creations who fail trying to achive the same effect as the two previously mentioned. Now I’m not going to mention any names here, mainly because I don’t know that many and of course, it’s just not nice to say someone’s creation is a failure.
Now, this brings me to my main point, how do you come up with a killer idea?
The answer?
There is no simple one. (Annoying, I know 
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I have been thinking about this for quite a while now, and the need for even greater talent is felt more than ever.
With what seems like all the simple, brilliant ones taken, and people coming up with new ones all the time, how do you create something unique? Now the way you do this depends on what sort of service you want to create? Whether it is a way to integrate 3rd party APIs together in one easy place (e.g. linking Twitter, Facebook, WordPress together) or if you want to create something completly different (e.g. Digg – unique back in the day, but now there are a lot of reps).
I tend not to limit myself to any one type. The way I do it is list all my different services I use, what my work flow is between them, and then I think how I could make it easier and/or simpler to do this. Or if there is anything major I wish these services had to offer, then it would be work building my own, with this feature and others included. Think Blogger to Kontain. Kontain is the same as blogger, with a lot of features added in or changed.
This is the basics of it, but you can go into a lot of detail and complexity on this, so there is really no limit to what sorta stuff you can come up with. This is my prefered way of coming up with a new idea, but it depends how you think and the way you work (visual, pratical, etc….).
I look forward to seeing all the progess that is make in the next few years and hopefully I’ll be at the front of it 
Harry.
