I need a thing to exist (calorie counter), but I also talked (if only superficially) to other people like me about the issue. I still got a lot of insight out o

I need a thing to exist (calorie counter), but I also talked (if only superficially) to other people like me about the issue. I still got a lot of insight out of that. You wouldn’t expect the number of tiny, innocent assumptions you make that hold for yourself but are utterly not the case for others. For example, the fact that I live with my partner and many of my potential users don’t means they can apply a fundamentally different process to tracking calories than me. You are not going to realize stuff like that on your own. So even if you’re mostly just fixing your own problem, just talking to a few people and making minor changes accordingly can make your product useful for a way bigger audience. Or maybe better stated conversely, not talking to others will narrow your products’ audience down immensely.