The second definitely doesn’t require luck. I built a $3k/mo app in a couple hours a day for a few weeks. People think it’s all luck because they build things

The second definitely doesn’t require luck. I built a $3k/mo app in a couple hours a day for a few weeks. People think it’s all luck because they build things just hoping someone will buy it and when they don’t “ah well, bad luck on this one”. Instead you need to find a problem people actually have first and then build something to solve that. Then its much more likely that someone will pay for that solution. It is not luck when you hear several people say something like, “I really wish it was easier to do x” and then you build a solution that makes doing x easier. It most certainly is luck if you just think of a random cool idea and it happens to be profitable.