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by nandreev 1302 days ago
For B2C:

1. Is there a community you're already part of? Could be hobby / industry related

2. Do you have an easy way to reach them (e.g. through a sub-reddit)?

3. If people are constantly asking for the same type of information or numbers, is there an opportunity to make a Google Sheets document with useful tabular data? (would only take you a couple of hours)

4. If people keep referencing this spreadsheet you've created, you can throw it into MongoDB and now you've got a) something useful and b) traffic.

Is this simplistic and prescriptive? Yes, but better than create-react-app and hoping to build something people need.

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Love this answer except would recommend Baserow since you want to remove the technical hiccups and get immediate visuals. Combines the Google Sheets and MongoDB aspects.

Airtable is also fine but not self-host capable and getting pretty bloated and clingy with marketing, etc.

https://baserow.io

Love your answer!!! I think "scratch your own itch" is a good answer too, but yours opens up the possibilities not just to my own itches but to other people's itches too. More so, it is sharp and focused. Thank you!!!