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by fdlaks 460 days ago
A lot of times the actual business emerges from something that started out as an idea that wasn't working. If you are still enjoying working on things in this space and it seems like this idea is running out of steam, pivot to something close to it and see if that has any effect. The one thing you do need to do is treat these pivots like an experiment so you actually learn something from them and can measure success.

For example maybe your hypothesis is that pivoting to an AI tool that will scan your profile and give you a score back as to how optimized it is for finding new jobs would increase the amount of people willing to pay 5 dollars to have their profile scanned. Maybe this is something people are willing to pay for more since you can justify it costing some small amount of money for potentially a much larger return for the user if the suggestions help them get more interviews or become more discoverable to recruiters, etc...

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I like the approach of small pivots & experimenting. Yes, I still love the idea & the product I have built.