[aristofun]

If anybody would had barely decent and meaningful answer to this question — they’d be too busy to describe it here anyway.

So i bet you’ll never find a wholy grail in some great advice from the internet.

What I personally like is the idea of “adjacent possible”.

If you dont know problem exists, it means you’re not on the edge, so you must first grow to be on the edge of some fields, only then you have a chance to see new opportunities there.

[AznHisoka]

Some really good ideas come from solving problems in new ecosystems. When Twitter became popular, there was a need to schedule tweets, thus Buffer was created. When Stripe became popular, there was a need to provide analytics, this Baremetrics was created.

Sometimes when there a bunch of new products in a similar category, there’s a need for an “aggregator” product. Hootsuite for instance aggregates all your social streams. Yext allows you to push updates to multiple local sites like Yelp and Google Maps.

So my quick advice would be to play with some of these new ecosystems/products. Ie TikTok, Substack, etc.

[vlod]

> If you dont know problem exists, it means you’re not on the edge, so you must first grow to be on the edge of some fields, only then you have a chance to see new opportunities there.

This is some great advice I'm going to take on board. If you're not surfing the tip (or edge as you call it) of the wave, you're just padding behind with everyone else and not seeing anything. Fabulous.

[aristofun]

Thanks. This is not my idea (though quite on the surface), i’ve seen it at least in Steven Johnson anf Cal Newport books.