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by hitsurume 1869 days ago
I'm in the same boat. Some reasons why I think we're in this situation: 1) We have solved most of our own problems that we can't think of a problem to solve. 2) We don't know anyone who has a problem that is not specific unique to their situation to help them solve. 3) This is one of the big ones, we don't create. I learn best by doing things and solving problems, so if I don't have a "reason" to do something, I don't go do it. Versus I think of the instagram founders, and how they were just messing around making IOS apps for fun, which I don't think I can do because I don't have anything in my mind to make, and then because they were already making apps, how the one founders wife gave them an idea on a walk. Essentially they were half way to solving the problem by already working on mobile apps, and then an adjacent idea came along that niched into their wheel house.