| Build a product that you yourself want to use. Then, find a semi-technical "business accountability person" (could be a CEO) that has a vested interest in keeping you on track. Sure it's a balance of "keeping it loosey goosey and fun" and "wow this just feels like another JIRA tracked corporate project" when you get non-technical people involved, but that balance can be half the fun. Also, you don't have to come up with the idea yourself necessarily. There are hundreds of non-technical founders vying for technical cofounders with 10 years of experience. My one actionable piece of advice: do more hackathons (especially Web3 ones) I'm just now about to launch my first self-made production project after four years, and it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had a kind of accountability partner. I met my business partner in a Chainlink Hackathon last year. We were working on the same thing, I liked his team, so we fused. He's kept me on track ever since as we enter seed financing, and I like to think I've perhaps kept the technicals on track as CTO. |