Do I need some experience to find a good idea?

Talk, or better: listen to people. Make that: people outside of your current bubble.
See where they are struggling, what annoyances do they face. Is there manual work done that can be automated? Can you make a tedious job, less tedious?
Or different: is there a current product that you could niche down on, eg. Github for Arabic frontend developers—to name something random.

Be genuine, be curious, understand what your limits are (and what you'll need to outsource or find help for), and don't stop.

Finding ideas starts with understanding that a children's lemonade stand might be worth a million dollars in your region/environment.

Finding a valuable idea is a process of being open, listening, testing and iterating.

@Adel Can I invite you to read this article - https://medium.com/@climb.lean/how-and-where-can-i-get-good-startup-ideas-cd0ca5f8f176 ? Nat Turner’s method just breaks a myth that domain expertise is important when it comes to business idea generation. Let me know if you need more help.

Do the James Altucher idea muscle practice for one month and it will change your life.

Yeah as @thomasm1964 says, embrace the curiousity. But I'd add to that, that you should embrace your inner laziness.

People pay a lot for convenience, doubly so for companies where saving time =saving money.

Look around you and figure out what you can automate, or what could use some technology to make less error prone etc. If you can tie it to time, then you can tie it to money.

All the best 👍👍

Do you need experience: meh.

Do you need passion: yes.
Do you need patience: yes.
Do you need persistence: yes.
Do you need to know when to ditch your product: yes.
Do you need to learn how to pivot: yes.

Are those experiences: yes.

But they are not “the” experiences that you are thinking about.

Learn soft skills, cuz soft skills are hard.

Hope that helps.

In my observation, the vast majority of people with successful product businesses didn't arrive at their business idea by brainstorming, listening, "talking to people", or just thinking really hard. Rather, they stumbled upon their business idea in the course of doing something else. Read a bunch of Indie Hackers interviews and you'll see that this is the case.

For example, one guy had a business that made software for flea markets. Never in a million years would I have come up with a business that serves flea markets. That guy had a relative or something who was involved with flea markets.

I also know someone who has a business making software for countertop fabricators. He came across the idea because his brother-in-law or something did countertop fabrication. Nobody ever would have encountered that idea just by talking with people.

Unfortunately this doesn't mean I can give you much good advice. I think this fact - that most businesses aren't dreamed up but stumbled upon - is one reason why it's so hard to start a successful business.

One thing I would recommend checking out is 30x500 (https://30x500.com/academy/). I also wrote an article on IH that you might find helpful: https://www.indiehackers.com/@jasonswett/d914213430

In my experience only a good idea isn’t enough. What I started doing was think of problems I have daily and try to solve them for myself first. Then I found similar problems my family and close friends had.

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