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by Animats 1840 days ago
Seems to be more of a personal problem of the writer: "Many of my high achieving friends had an underlying anxiety and discontentedness."

The more common "creating for an imaginary group of people" problem is creating a product for a too-narrow niche. You see a lot of those if you go to VC presentations. It's classically a problem of writers writing their first bad novel.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/yYvkICbTZIQ

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> creating a product for a too-narrow niche

In my experience, the opposite is more common. Instead of just nailing core feature A, devs start thinking that users will want features B, C and D as well. And this is before even entering beta.

Why is a very narrow niche as a starting point a bad thing?
What an phenomenal band and song... My god.