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"Building an audience" Maybe...

I was just looking through different posts, and was just having a few thoughts and questions.

A lot of people mention that they built an audience first, and one thing that I found interesting was that a lot of times, the audience is basically other members (aka. indiehackers, people wanting to build things, etc.), so they build a product that's catered to that (Obviously).

Now, there's nothing wrong with this. But I am wondering, are there any people here that built an audience that's not really in "this" specific space and built a succesful product for it? If so, can you share your experience?

Or, would it even make sense to try to build an audience in a different space?🤔 For example, let's say, you are building (or want to build) something that will help dentists, building an audience for that, might be; first of all, way harder, and second, it might be not even the right approach to it.

While building an audience for any kind of niche definitely makes sense (I'm doing that in the video editing space for one of my projects), because it can add the trust factor for newcomers among other benefits. I feel like sometimes, spending so much time trying to go this route might not be the best approach.

What are your thoughts?

Let me know if I made sense or not at all. I should probably be in bed, but for some reason decided to post this.

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    My audience is far more broad than indiehackers. I cater to anyone who wants to get better at google sheets. Do more with google sheets. There are a couple of other indiehackers like this.

    @itsjustamar caters to house cleaning.

    @yongfook's work is great for no-coders and anyone using images on the web, which is a very broad type of audience.

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      Definitely! That's one thing I also wanted to mention. I wanted to mention about building a sort of "broad audience" but I was just too tired and forgot. But thanks for sharing those! Would definitely look into them to see what I can learn :D

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