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I have the impression that much more people are looking to bootstrap a business than seeking VC funding.

The thing is that funding-seeker founders are very concentraded in a some bubbles in big cities, due to the nature of VC ecosystem and bootstrappers are more dispersed, each one close to their respective market (or or not even so, as in low touch digital business).

I assume you are in one of those bubbles.

Good places to sneak out of it: https://www.microconf.com and https://www.indiehackers.com