[yowlingcat]

I'll take the counterparty to your claim. My counterpoint is that you don't need to build to do any of what I'm laying out. You can validate the market for what you're trying to do with content, lead generation forms and spreadsheets. My point is that it _doesn't matter what_ you build if you don't perceive the right customer need and react to it appropriately. At least for me, it's very easy to focus more on building something (because it's fun) than it is to go back to the drawing board if an idea isn't good enough (because that's psychologically exhausting).