[jqpabc123]

Short cut to figuring it all out --- tech is only about half of the total equation needed to produce a successful and profitable product.

If tech alone was enough, Linux would be on everyone's desktop.

The reason it is not is because those involved are for the most part disconnected from and disinterested in the social and humanistic aspects of creating a "product".

I suggest a division of talents. Step away from keyboard and start looking to form an informal partnership with someone who has contacts and inside knowledge of some specific industry.

You focus on the tech, they focus on the business and "humanistic" stuff and you split the profits.

This is what I did over 25 years ago and I have been running my own successful business ever since.

[yuanhao]

Good points.

It would be nice to know people in different industries with real problems. I had my real problems as a developer before but many tools are already built for that.

A friend who works in marketing has a lot more issues with bad solutions and terrible or overpriced tools

[jqpabc123]

A friend who works in marketing has a lot more issues with bad solutions and terrible or overpriced tools.

Someone with a problem is an opportunity for you.

And most of the opportunity available today involves some industry/domain specifics that you're probably not going to run across on the internet.