[artemonster]

In a couple of minutes someone would start telling you about some unsolved problems in whatever niches where you can offer a solution. Without any slightest hint on how to even get in touch with such „niches“. From my long journey of scraping indiehacker, reddit and IRL stories most found their „niche“ either by pure chance doing something tangent or by directly solving their own personal problems and scaling the solution to broader audiences. Bad news if you are just a regular 9to5 codemonkey with below-average social circle :/

[ge96]

I had a similar idea regarding scraping but directed at forums where people are asking "is there a way to do this" or "how would I make this?". Then I would make it. I'm not sure though how to gauge if it's worth pursuing maybe frequency of mention/recurrence.

[manmal]

You could start helping out people or organizations for free. It’s a great way to get to know people and find niches to build for.