I can remember when Facebook was huge in 2009.
Achieving that virality, userbase
It is easier now than ever to build things, make apps and infrastructure/compute to be rented
But what is the thing to make
The new VR/AR headset by Apple could have pushed towards new ideas/trends but that kind of died(?)
I just hope there is more to writing software than just work-business related CRUD apps, the virality I seek is about money (making it from success). I know there is more to write than apps eg. firmware for a humanoid robot.
Look at (a) the history of computing for some hints. See the people who have written at length about what can/should be done with software/computers, but isn't.
Then (b), pulling those concepts off takes (1) chutzpah (or naivete) and (2) market forces that will be either tolerant or ripe.
In the past, (2) has been lamented (perhaps natively) as the slow rate of "social evolution". But (2) could also be viewed as politics by another name, or through another lens. Or call it "market education". Doesn't matter what you call it; it's been progressing full throttle.
I think (2) is basically there and/or getting there, whereas in the past (2) was the main blocker.
So, get your socks on, we're just getting started, IMO.
Anyone who knows what is the next thing to make, isn't lurking on HN waiting to give you the answer.
If there's any advice I can possibly give, it's just to be intensely curious about everything. That's how ideas are born