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Ask HN: How do I find a good startup idea?
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#12If you’re going to look for ideas, it may be more useful to focus on what others want, instead of what you want.
Look at your skills and how best you can help other people with what they want, then solve one specific problem for one person and expand from there.
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#13If anybody would had barely decent and meaningful answer to this question — they’d be too busy to describe it here anyway. So i bet you’ll never find a wholy grail in some great advice from the internet. What I personally like is the idea of “adjacent possible”. If you dont know problem exists, it means you’re not on the edge, so you must first grow to be on the edge of some fields, only then you have a chance to see…
> If you dont know problem exists, it means you’re not on the edge, so you must first grow to be on the edge of some fields, only then you have a chance to see new opportunities there. This is some great advice I'm going to take on board. If you're not surfing the tip (or edge as you call it) of the wave, you're just padding behind with everyone else and not seeing anything. Fabulous.
Thanks. This is not my idea (though quite on the surface), i’ve seen it at least in Steven Johnson anf Cal Newport books.
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#14I'm in the same boat. Some reasons why I think we're in this situation: 1) We have solved most of our own problems that we can't think of a problem to solve. 2) We don't know anyone who has a problem that is not specific unique to their situation to help them solve. 3) This is one of the big ones, we don't create. I learn best by doing things and solving problems, so if I don't have a "reason" to do something, I don't go do it. Versus I think of the instagram founders, and how they were just messing around making IOS apps for fun, which I don't think I can do because I don't have anything in my mind to make, and then because they were already making apps, how the one founders wife gave them an idea on a walk. Essentially they were half way to solving the problem by already working on mobile apps, and then an adjacent idea came along that niched into their wheel house.
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#15I have the opposite problem. I know what to build but I don't know how.
Nocode solutions? Also there are a lot of tutorials for everything. Or partner with some dev
Re: Ask HN: How do I find a good startup idea?
#161) Either pull from your experience and expertise or do anything that puts eyes on screen and displays ads.
2) Be original, which means deliberately doing what others are not doing. Beware that this will be repulsive to everyone at first.
3) Be nimble. Do that which incumbents cannot, which is far less challenging than it sounds. Incumbents refuse to do many things out of product cannibalism, available talent, speed of delivery, experimentation, and so forth.
4) If originality is too challenging then be excellent at marketing. You are putting lipstick on pig ass, so do it right to make it look better than a swimsuit super model.
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#18If anybody would had barely decent and meaningful answer to this question — they’d be too busy to describe it here anyway. So i bet you’ll never find a wholy grail in some great advice from the internet. What I personally like is the idea of “adjacent possible”. If you dont know problem exists, it means you’re not on the edge, so you must first grow to be on the edge of some fields, only then you have a chance to see…
Some really good ideas come from solving problems in new ecosystems. When Twitter became popular, there was a need to schedule tweets, thus Buffer was created. When Stripe became popular, there was a need to provide analytics, this Baremetrics was created.
Sometimes when there a bunch of new products in a similar category, there’s a need for an “aggregator” product. Hootsuite for instance aggregates all your social streams. Yext allows you to push updates to multiple local sites like Yelp and Google Maps.
So my quick advice would be to play with some of these new ecosystems/products. Ie TikTok, Substack, etc.
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#19As you alluded to there are a lot of problems already so it is a matter of picking 1 and finding one person to solve it.
If you are looking for areas to disrupt here are a few
- end of life planning/funerals
- waste water management
- debt management: find optimal way to pay off debt
- supply chain visibility
- checking the quality of supplements
- building a better finance/economics forecasting model/tool