Solve your own problem and you've found your 1st user!
This rings true for Budibase
Mike was sick of the repetition involved with building web apps.
I had limited programming knowledge and never felt confident working with databases and backend development.
So we met and combined our efforts to solve ou
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100%. But I would say unless the market is crowded go speak to potential customers first.
I would love to know how many side projects get started without ever speaking to anyone.
For my first project I just started coding and never spoke to anyone. I wasted a lot of time on that. It solves a big problem for a lot of companies but I have no feasible go to market strategy at the moment.
My current project is an issue I had from the previous project. So I spoke to a few potential customers to confirm that it was a real problem.
I will also be dogfooding the project so will learn a ton from doing that.
Such a hard road doing it alone. You ever thought of looking for a co-founder ?
This is a great starting point, but emphasis must be applied to potential customers.
true that.