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@paulg Absolutely. The hardest part for most founders is overcoming the fear of starting "too small." How do you balance keeping that small, precise focus daily while still maintaining a long-term vision so you don't get permanently stuck in a niche?
@paulg Exactly this. The best user research is often introspection. If you scratch your own itch deeply enough, chances are others have it too. It's the ultimate dogfooding strategy.
@paulg you are no longer relevant, nor is your unsolicited advice
@paulg Small? Doesn’t sound like a good investment. Hard pass
@paulg Absolutely. The hardest part for most founders is overcoming the fear of starting "too small." How do you balance keeping that small, precise focus daily while still maintaining a long-term vision so you don't get permanently stuck in a niche?
@paulg Exactly this. The best user research is often introspection. If you scratch your own itch deeply enough, chances are others have it too. It's the ultimate dogfooding strategy.
@paulg @ycombinator Beautifully said 🙌
The biggest mistake young founders make is a variant of this: to build something you imagine people want, instead of studying them and figuring out what they actually do want. But the hack for beating this is to roll with your solipsism and make something for yourself. https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/2076726980267909148
An initial startup idea can't usually be both grand and precise. In practice they're usually either grand and vague or precise and small. Precise and small is better. You know who your initial users are, and you expand outward. With grand and vague you can't even get started.
This is yet another reason it's good for young founders, especially, to start by building something they themselves want. If you're the intended user, you're not going to be satisfied with vague. (Nor is any user, but at least this way you're forced to see it.)
live in the future and make something you desperately need https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2076729604359016751
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The biggest mistake young founders make is a variant of this: to build something you imagine people want, instead of studying them and figuring out what they actually do want. But the hack for beating this is to roll with your solipsism and make something for yourself. https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/2076726980267909148
An initial startup idea can't usually be both grand and precise. In practice they're usually either grand and vague or precise and small. Precise and small is better. You know who your initial users are, and you expand outward. With grand and vague you can't even get started.
This is yet another reason it's good for young founders, especially, to start by building something they themselves want. If you're the intended user, you're not going to be satisfied with vague. (Nor is any user, but at least this way you're forced to see it.)