What do you see as the product most likely to make you an IT billionaire?

“Guys like Zuckerberg”? Guys like Zuckerberg are the Web 2.0 equivalent of Pet Rocks.

If you want to be a serious code writer, first learn to use English. The words are “code” and “writer”. Then learn the lessons of guys like Knuth. Knuth’s lessons will still be valid after “guys like Zuckerberg” disappear like JenniCam.

Writing code that helps people might not make you a billionaire, but it might make you a grownup.

I think if someone coded a flash app that leveraged your webcam and added in some chat would rock. Click a button and you are video chatting with a total stranger. If you don’t like that person you could click another button and get a different stranger looking at you. I wish I had the skills to make that.

@frdelrosario I get the idea that hiding behind a moniker seems kinda childish but this site is all about fun anyway so keep you mouth shut or stuff a foot in it. I have absolutely no interest in Knuth for now, spent four years learning his lessons. My models for now are 37signals and Paul Graham. The question was actually my first on this site and was meant to measure how fast answers are generated. Obviously there are asinine replies first on many threads too.

@johnpowell I guess that young eastern european whiz has already done it. You are talking about Chatroulette I guess. Pretty neat app.

@frdelrosario, I am guessing there’s also a simple reason why people like john powell have more points. THEY make replies that help people rather than look down crooked noses at people, enough said.

**It may be a wild guess, but you seem like some arrogant but penniless comp sci researcher who secretly envies the Zuckerbergs and Pages of this world while publicly shouting the perils of social networking and the advantages of literate programming. I am sure you cant even write code to save your life talkless help others or do something worthwhile. Again, enough said.**

Stay with me on this one guys. What if we created a phone that didn’t have a key board? Outrageous I know, but what if I then told you that the keyboard was the screen? You see my idea is to make a phone with a touch scree!!!

You may think this is an otherworldly idea, but I think it would be a big hit in todays market. It will be called…

iCell Touch

I already have on of those. lol

How about a Cel-phone you can use in the shower.

Can it be called the iShower?

@Kodewrita

The number of lurve points equates to time spent on Fluther. You think like a nursery schooler — without logic, and wanting to program for the most material and selfish reason. Good luck to you, and your generation.

@frdelrosario Open your eyes and smell the roses. more than half the programmers in the world are doing it for the same reasons. You want me to believe all these services we use were all created for altruistic reasons. You are the idealist. you are the one with your head in the clouds.

I have no use for such. I understand the utility of creating something people want/need. That goes without saying. But whats the point of helping people if you go bankrupt. I am no mother teresa. Part of the fun of being a programmer is that i make money from it.
The whole point of this topic was about sounding out people and assessing what THEY think is the next big thing.capisce.

Go somewhere else for a fight.