I find this thread fascinating. In over 20 years in the formal IT sector I've had one idea, and have stuck with that single idea for seven years.
It started with frustration at a piece of software I was using on my phone at the time (a Nokia 9210 Communicator), and has since been influenced by books I've read and other apps I've used. I quit my job at Microsoft in September last year to work on it full time.
Granted, over the years I've had a few more ideas - most of them spin-offs of the framework I created, but all have been put on hold until I can ship v.1 of the current idea.
I guess it's just another example my tendency to assume that eveyone else thinks like I do.
It started with frustration at a piece of software I was using on my phone at the time (a Nokia 9210 Communicator), and has since been influenced by books I've read and other apps I've used. I quit my job at Microsoft in September last year to work on it full time.
Granted, over the years I've had a few more ideas - most of them spin-offs of the framework I created, but all have been put on hold until I can ship v.1 of the current idea.
I guess it's just another example my tendency to assume that eveyone else thinks like I do.