Hello to whoever reads this. I feel like I am hitting my head into a wall because I know what I want to do and achieve but not sure where to go from here.<p>I have learnt how to write basic code from freecodecamp and some YouTube tutorials but it's still far from where I want to be. I am not trying to be Jeff Bezos but it would make me so proud and happy if I could create a product that 100 people would use daily. I just don't know where to start - should I just blow my savings on paying a random guy to code something for me?
Consider peeling away the layers-<p>Problem: how do I feed myself and my family and community good food, and ensure adequate shelter?<p>Solution: working with your family and community, take care of your natural resources in a large enough area to sustain you (and also accepting that your population will be regulated by the carrying capacity of the land and water), and practice ways to sustain yourselves for generations.<p>Doing this in a healthy way, together, is meaningful and likely to lead to a peaceful death with no regrets. If you really don't care about the money, consider activism. I'd say your chances at lasting impact are greater in the existential realm. Who is going to care about Facebook or Twitter in a century? With a strong oral tradition, your community's descendants may care about your leadership during catastrophic climate change.
Start by identifying the problem you're trying to solve, then validate that the problem is worth solving and that your approach can get people wanting to solve it. Then figure out what's the quickest way to test this, and only then if all is validated start building something.
Deeply consider your motivations. The typical reason to want to start a business is to chase <i>status</i>.<p>In fact it seems like most goals people mention are to get status.<p>A business has one goal: to make money. Money is a poor substitute for status. Owning a small business does not really give you much status. Number of employees does give status: which is one reason some businesses implode by employing too many people.<p>Unfortunately it is very difficult to identify how much of what we do is status games.
Here's a previous comment I made on that topic: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29912252">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29912252</a><p>Meanwhile, find a job you mostly enjoy that pays okay.<p>The most important signal is that you are not inspired - that is a sign that you rationally <i>think</i> starting a business is a good idea. It isn't: you are just buying into the false startup narrative. If you actually believed in a business, you would have started one.<p>Additionally the median business costs their founder too much lifetime and all their money.<p>> should I just blow my savings on paying a random guy to code something for me<p>That's a recipe for disaster: there's a lot of grifters out there (intentional or not - I don't know).<p>Disclaimer: successful founder with opinions but suspicious that the opinions above are unuseful.<p>90% of startups fail and shut down: <a href="https://startupgenome.com/article/the-state-of-the-global-startup-economy" rel="nofollow">https://startupgenome.com/article/the-state-of-the-global-st...</a> I assume small businesses have similar or worse stats.