> Every time I look at a boring problem in tech there is a pretty okayish solution
Congratulations. It means your ideas are good and there is a proven market for them (assuming the solutions you find are generating revenue).
The fallacy that “there already is a product” out there doing something and as such you shouldnt would imply that we’d all wear identically looking jeans and there would be one car design and one type of phone.
Differentiate a bit. The only questions to answer are: can you execute on your idea, is there a market large enough to achieve your target revenue and is it overcrowded?
Even 'differentiate a bit' might be the same instinct biting.
Really, just market and sell adequately enough to grab the share of the market that you need is all it comes down to. Your product might even be a worse copy of an established competitor and this still holds true.
It's so rarely about more or different features, better UX, or innovative twists on ideas, and so often about just getting in front of the customer in the right place at the right time.
Talk to the people who have the problem you are solving (or the people making purchasing decisions for those people). Do they know about the existing solutions? Do they use any? Would they be willing to switch? Have they switched in the past?
Congratulations. It means your ideas are good and there is a proven market for them (assuming the solutions you find are generating revenue).
The fallacy that “there already is a product” out there doing something and as such you shouldnt would imply that we’d all wear identically looking jeans and there would be one car design and one type of phone.
Differentiate a bit. The only questions to answer are: can you execute on your idea, is there a market large enough to achieve your target revenue and is it overcrowded?