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One compelling idea that I heard recently was looking around on odesk and similar sites for lots of similar requests and building a tool that solves those probl
by wwalser 10y ago
One compelling idea that I heard recently was looking around on odesk and similar sites for lots of similar requests and building a tool that solves those problems.
The upside is that you can find a probably that people are provably interested in paying money to solve. The downside is that most ideas you'll find are going to be a real grind to solve and are unlikely to be passion projects which is often helpful for success.
- borplk 10y agoI've tried doing a little bit of that before but didn't seem work very well. I could hardly spot a good "pattern" in the jobs posted. Most of them seemed ad-hoc and custom enough that after looking at a 100 you will still struggle to find a common denominator.
- bbcbasic 10y agoPlus those guys buying odesk time are cheapskates.
- wwalser 10y agohttps://blog.parsehub.com/how-we-got-our-first-10-paying-saas-customers/ https://blog.parsehub.com/how-we-got-our-first-10-paying-saa... I believe this post was the genesis of the odesk idea. SaaS tends to be inexpensive compared to paying a human to do something, even if that human is underpaid, since costs are amortized across many customers. You're paying for something more similar to (CPU time+profit margin) instead of human time. I'd also hasten to add that there are two sided marketplaces where average costs are higher.