Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.