Has Someone Already Done This Before?

This one is a little bit difficult to tell. For example, let’s say that you wanted to make an app that can organize baseball cards by team, year, and so on. How in the world can you tell whether someone has already done that?

Sure, you can go into the Android Market and do a search on “baseball card organizer.” I suppose that is as good as a description as any, but I checked, and there is nothing matching it. You will find a lot of search results if you just use “baseball cards.”

By the way, just because someone has done your idea doesn’t mean that you can’t do the same thing, but better! There have been a lot of successful businesses and entertainment franchises that have succeeded this way. After all, where ...

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