Below The Fold

Did you ever have a great idea? So great, you knew it was an instant winner? You knew that all you had to do was find some engineer to whip it into shape, and the pure awesomeness of said idea would sell it to the world, completely on its own merit? You ever have one of those ideas, and even jot it down and drop a line to an engineer you know? Even take the step of reaching out to the engineer and explaining your idea? And then, a moment later, did you think to yourself, waitaminute. I can’t believe no one has thought of this before; I better google it? And then, did you discover that your super-awesome, unbelievably great idea–the one all your colleagues were saying they would rush out and buy and that you were a genius for coming up with in the first place–well, it’s already been done?
Yeah. That just happened to me. Just now.