41Where ideas come from

The most common blocker: "I want to make something but I don't know what". Let's fix that.

Bad strategy: hunting for a brilliant idea. Brilliant ideas are either already built or need a year of work, and you'll quit in week two.

Good strategy: hunt for boring and annoying. The thing you do by hand every week and resent. The thing people around you complain about. The thing that makes you open five tabs.

A live example I love: TractorData. A reference of tractor specifications, literally a database about tractors. The design hasn't changed in about ten years, no hype, no AI in the name. By outside estimates, that is around a million visits a month and forty-six thousand dollars a month from ads. Run by one person.

Another: ScreenshotOne. A service that takes a screenshot of any site from a link. One function, one founder, over thirty thousand dollars a month.

The point is you don't have to invent something new. You have to find something people need that is currently done badly or awkwardly.

Three questions to find yours: what annoys me every week? what do I do by hand that could be automatic? what do people complain about in the chats I'm already in?