Having a hard time finding product or industry I'm interested in
I'm a developer and I can execute my ideas easily, which is awesome. So every time I have an idea I create MVP for it, but soon after I lose interest in it, even when I start promoting I'm like: "Nah, it's stupid, there is no point working on it". Then this product dies, I leave and move on to something else.
I think the worst thing of all is that "regular" SaaS products such as: social networks, webshops, travel SaaS, tourism SaaS and similar copycats are not interesting to me at all. I find it boring and tried like 1000 times so far
Did anyone find themselves in the same situation? How do I find a product or industry that I'm genuinely interested in?
Hi Dario - I know how you feel.
Honestly, a big part of this is mindset. It’s clear from the way you’re writing that you’re feeling defeated. This is normal!
You are a maker - so conceptualizing and executing on new, innovative, exciting ideas are in your blood.
Focus on gratitude and finding happiness in the small and simple things in your life. When you carry with you a positive mindset and lift the pressure and burden of having to “come up with something and stick to it”, you will find yourself naturally entering that flow state and building for fun again.
You will eventually find something you love and want to pursue, naturally - in time. Trust that.
Also, nothing wrong with building a lot and throwing it away. You’re training yourself to build the thing you will eventually take the whole way.
Thanks :)
And sou are right. I feel defeated
I'm sort of in a similar space right now and the advice I got was to just talk to as many people as possible in various industries to identify problems. Many biz niches that might look boring at first could have really interesting problems once you dig deeper.
Where to find these people and how to talk to them? do you mean literally cold DM them asking how they do their things?
Yup, basically. I'm currently in the process of cold emailing a bunch of content creators and I'm aiming to set up ~30 min interviews with about 10-15 of them. There are almost certainly better ways to go about this but I'm still learning!
How do you know their emails?
I just collect them manually from YouTube/LinkedIn, but you can also use tools like RocketReach.
hi Khoomeik, is it good to collect email and send email to them without their subscription?
How about dev tools you wish you had? I found myself in the same place a few years ago, partly because I didn't have many hobbies outside of coding and was tired of building for niches I didn't actually care about. I ended up building a tool that helps other devs speed up their product development. Everything about that has been so much easier. Been at it since 2019, it's profitable, and still excited to work on it everyday. I think there's still a ton of opportunity in the dev tool space.
I thought of it also. Everything I need is already there
Everything you need may already be there, but is everything there is easy enough to use? Can you think of making some things simpler. There are so many things in the dev community which need improvement. For example:- dockers right now are a mess, do you think you can make them easy? Any hot new tech will need improvements.
Hey! Just found this. A bit old, but whatever... did you consider teaming up w someone else?
I (marketer) am slowly realizing that I'm a bit crippled without a tech partner in crime. Don't know what you are up to, but if interested, let's talk.
Yah Dario, I was in this stage from 2010 to 2017 Then I decided I will first love Whatever I will create and will grow up like child. Since 2017 I am working on aligly.com that is a website and funnel builder. Now I am happy with this mind set.
Wow that's a long time
yes long time But It is better then nothing
Interestingly, I had the inverse problem; was interested in and tried out so many wild ideas, but so many of them didn't have a market.
Maybe it'd be easier to go up an abstraction level, leaving aside "product/industry" and thinking about your convictions. What do you believe in strongly? What's something in your life that annoys you? When you've been fired up while talking with a friend, what was the topic?
The idea is that to you'll need to genuinely believe in what you're doing to get past the "nah, it's stupid point." If you start with what you believe, I bet you can work back to a product/industry
I tried that but my mindset is kinds weird, throughout years I trained myself to be chill and not to be bothered by things around me. It's hard to find something that is really frustrating or annoying, because my mind just ignores those things or doesn't find them annoying