Like it's something that fits who you are and where you are in your journey so well, that you won't mind staring into the abyss and eating glass for a

ProblemHunt - Find Your Perfect Startup Problem

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2025-01-24 09:00:05

Like it's something that fits who you are and where you are in your journey so well, that you won't mind staring into the abyss and eating glass for a few years.

You can build a hobby or a career around something that lives in only some of these circles. But if you want to build a successful startup - your perfect problem has to be right in the middle.

And be careful not to fool yourself. Because if you are really hungry for a startup, fooling yourself is the easiest thing in the world:

Well, a startup is a business. And for a business, reality must take precedent over public relations, for profits (unlike some investors) cannot be fooled.

You can keep pretending that you already know your perfect problem. You can keep half-heartedly building things that even you aren't excited about. You can keep burning yourself out, making things nobody wants to pay for.

The good news is the investment just got cheaper. It used to take weeks or months of soul-searching, research, validation and agonising doubt.