Build something simple, and make it a product/tool that doesn't require many active users to work, aka, doesn't require a network effect. I built http://feedsu

Build something simple, and make it a product/tool that doesn't require many active users to work, aka, doesn't require a network effect. I built http://feedsub.com http://feedsub.com for this reason. Only a few users, but it indexes thousands of feeds and I make plenty of use out of it for myself. My current project is deploying this app on a Raspberry Pi based cluster, and I'm going to write all the software for this myself to learn distributed programming.