&gt;I think, frankly, that many startups need a website with a google form + some excel sheets to get started and if the thing takes off they can hire someone who can use google to bang on stackoverflow.<p>I agree, but this is mostly true because there&#x27;s so much low-hanging fruit out there. If you look at the current successful startups like Uber and Airbnb, they&#x27;re really trivial applications. That doesn&#x27;t mean they can&#x27;t create huge amounts of value by &quot;trivially&quot; repackaging services and connecting people.<p>Once the low-hanging fruit is developed during the next 10 years or so we can finally start focusing on actual high-tech engineering startups.