Solve Your Own Problems And Sell The Solution

Hey, it’s Sabyr.

A lot of people are asking me:

"Where do you find ideas?"
"How to find an idea?"
"I don't know what to build"
"Give me an idea to build"

You are asking the right questions. But before investing and spending a lot of time on the first project. Let's focus on your problem. Maybe you don't know it, but you are facing it every day. Just analyze your day and make note of what you are doing. Maybe you don't like something or even hate something. Maybe it annoys you. Maybe you can't find a solution to this problem.

It's basically what you need. Problem ideally that could be solved, and it's a pain in the ass.

That's how you find your idea.

After you spend days, weeks, or even months on finding your idea. Now time to build and launch.

Here is my playbook:

Write down your idea in the note. Make a quick research of your idea. Choose tools that you know. If you know no-code, use no-code. If you know a programming language, use it. This step is not as hard as most people think. Just use whatever you know. Next step, set a deadline of 2-4 weeks. Yeah, I know it is not perfect for the next Facebook, but it is perfect for your first product. After building it, go launch it, you should do it in that 2-4 weeks with no extra time.

Then face it. Launch is only a step one. You probably on your first launch will get 10-100 visitors. What to do next ? Focus on marketing channels where your ICP (ideal customer profile). If it is B2B (Linkedin, cold emails), if it is B2C (Instagram, Youtube Shorts). Also, if you are ready to play a long game, be ready to learn and apply SEO.

Be honest with yourself your first product will take time. It could be 3-6-9-12-24-36 months to make your first dollar. Yeah, I know you heard a lot of stories of quick-rich-schemas. When they got lucky and got a lot of money in the first 24 hours. Believe me, "overnight success". In most cases, it is just work for more than 10 years straight without any wins. And one day people think that it is overnight success. But in reality it is just work and patience.