The Startup Ideas Podcast
The best businesses are built at the intersection of emerging technology, community, and real human needs.
Personal Software Development Framework
Build software primarily for yourself first, then find others who share your specific needs rather than trying to build for mass market from the start
How It Works
Start with your own frustrations and use cases, build exactly what you want without compromise, launch to see who else resonates, then decide whether to scale or keep personal
Components
Identify your own genuine frustration or need
Build exactly what you want without market considerations
Use it daily in your real workflow
Share with similar people in your network
Observe organic growth patterns
Decide whether to keep personal or scale based on response
When to Use
When you have specific domain expertise or unique needs, when building in emerging spaces where user needs aren't well understood, or when you want to minimize risk
When Not to Use
For well-understood markets with clear user research, when building utility products with obvious universal needs, or when you lack domain expertise
Anti-Patterns to Avoid
Example
“Build a custom news aggregator focused on AI novelty detection because existing tools don't filter for your interests, discover 500+ others want the exact same filtering approach”
Related Knowledge
Contextual AI Computing
AI that understands the full context of user activity over time rather than requiring explicit prompts for each interact
pick a daily habit to serve narrow wedge use case
Successful mobile apps focus on specific daily behaviors within narrow market segments rather than broad solutions
It's not going to be what you build as much as what you don't build
With AI making everything buildable, success will come from choosing what NOT to build rather than capability limits
Vibe coders should build single killer features rather than complex multi-feature platforms
Success probability increases with focused scope - if you can't make a simple tool with auth, payment, and email work, y