It's great that you are thinking about this. Here is another potentially more valuable tool to consider: a problem generator. The goal is to identify problems, tunable complexity from mundane to moonshot, in a selectable field. You also select the customer, a tunable value for the customer (low to high), and the field/industry. You could prototype this with a well-developed prompt in your favorite AI and discover oth…
Paul Graham's article How to Get Startup Ideas [0] is this approach. > The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. > The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yah…
Thanks for that! I was about to add a reply describing my situation of schlep blindness without using that noun. Of course, it'd have taken much longer text.
I'd say besides identifying problems, you'd have to have a knack for look-out for an easy solution for that problem, and most importantly building a business around that solution.
Back in 2004/2005, I was working with a payment gateway; it was super difficult to work with. I forgot the name now. I guess it was along the likes of Authorize.net. But, at that time, it never occurred to me to turn that into a business problem and solve it (face palm).