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Because you want to replace it with the 996 (9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week) grind? Because that's what a startup is, with no guarantee that it's ever going to drop back down to merely 40 hours a week. Anyway, if that's what you want... the secret is to know your customer, which usually means knowing yourself. Find some domain that interests you, something you're already doing, and say, "Hey, I could automate that." It's easiest to see that something is slightly uncomfortable when you're the one being slightly uncomfortable. You relieve that discomfort, and then you look for other people who are similarly uncomfortable. And convince them to pay for it, either in money or in attention. "Free with ads" is very low friction and helps you find those people. This is the reason I encourage programmers to have interests outside of programming. Nobody wants to pay you to program. They want to pay you to make their lives better. That's easiest if you know their lives. Any outside interest -- ballet dancing, glassblowing, small engine repair -- puts you in touch with other people who might have needs that can only be recognized by other practitioners. That you don't have any interests -- honestly, that sounds like a question for a therapist, not HN. You're doing something with those 8 hours you're spending neither working nor sleeping. If they're spent staring at a wall, or even a TV or a monitor, it might be worth taking a look at just what it is you want out of life. |