How to come up with your startup idea?
- Only ~30% of ideas came from founders trying to solve their own problem.
- Less than a third of founders were actively ideating startup ideas.
- Just 20% of the ideas came from pivots.
- Just over half of the ideas initially seemed trivial (ie a toy) at first.
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https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/kickstarting-and-scaling-a-consumer
Hi Allen.
I must agree with your post. I have seen so many startups, which just got started without any validation, or any problems which needed to be solved. I think that is essential to success.
Sure, you can succeed with something new, or something fancy that no-one asked for. But I think it is way easier to build something, which eases the pain of a lot of people.
For example, we are working on ERA - The Markdown Note-Taking Tool For Developer.
We decided to work on it, as we were not satisfied with any other note-taking tools.
Most of the available tools are:
As we validated the idea, we saw that many fellow developers suffer with the same pain. So it is up to us to deliver a tool with developers in mind and fix all these issues mentioned above.
ERA is still in beta, under development but you can try it for free.
Cheers,
Alex