What should you build?

Related:<p>Paul Graham: &quot;Almost all founders learn brutal lessons during the first year, but some learn them much more quickly. Obviously those founders are more likely to succeed. So it could be a useful heuristic to ask, say 6 to 12 months in, &quot;Have we learned our brutal lesson yet?&quot;&quot; &quot;The most common lesson is that customers don&#x27;t want what you&#x27;re making. The next most common is that it isn&#x27;t possible to make it, or at least to make it profitably.&quot;<p>Can you make it? Will people want that? Will it make money?

So the article comes up with the grand firework of a thought of<p>&gt; Make something that people want<p>I still find this kinda complicated to follow in practice. Make something that you want. What you need, day to day at best. You longed it for long, searched all the possibilities and it just doesn&#x27;t exist yet. It helps with motivation, and you know the basics to start from. Other people&#x2F;the market can then help steer it in the right direction.

How about building something that’s good for the planet?<p>Or something that significantly reduces people’s living costs?<p>Or something to increase equality and equity?<p>There is far too much priority placed on making profits in tech and not nearly enough doing what’s actually good for people.

Was thinking about this with my SO doing fiber arts today.<p>Was thinking about a small 2d scanner&#x2F;ccd camera in the profile of a SpO2 sensor. Connects with Bluetooth. Would take pictures of garments, fabric, yarn, etc for purposes of color matching in a store.<p>The app would have color calibration with white LEDs. 2 main functions: &quot;store&quot; and &quot;match&quot;. Store would allow storing color samples. Match would show the samples you have and %fit to the stored sample&#x2F;samples.<p>Could easily integrate with online stores for matching colors as well.<p>But yeah, I don&#x27;t have the capital to do this. Maybe someone else can run with it.

I still don’t know a good source for finding business problems to solve. You end up having to talk to people which is slow and won’t give you a large list. Ideally I’d want a huge list to pick from.