Makes you wonder what you are actually building then, if it wasn't the product that ended up making you succesful. I notice a few of these stories involve stum

Makes you wonder what you are actually building then, if it wasn't the product that ended up making you succesful. I notice a few of these stories involve stumbling on an itch that badly needed scratching while doing something else with as much purpose. One of the big challenges of entrepreneurship in software is finding a problem worth working on when you're not actually experiencing any problems that aren't software related. In that sense, perhaps you're building up experience in a new industry when building an idea, which introduces you to new problems, sometimes better problems.