I'm talking in the context of small to medium businesses and indie businesses not multi-billion unicorns like FB and Google.
> Do you seriously believe that inventing a new market is less difficult than fixing/improving existing solutions?
Not at all. I didn't mean to imply that.
> not exactly sure what was the whole point of you rant.
The whole point was that I think simplistic and obvious problem statements like "I like AWS but it doesn't have this feature" or "I want a better customer support software" are worthless.
The part that I said wasn't entirely worthless was about those problem statements that are very specific and niche (I was contrasting that to the worthless ones).
Basic example, "People want more tasty Pizza", "People want better wine" is trivial and worthless.
A much more narrow, specific, and niche example could be valuable. Something like:
"In $area there are lots of migrants living from $country and they love this $local_type_of_bread that you can't find here at all. If you can bake some fresh ones you can probably make good money with it. You could sell them via these local ethnic grocery stores that people there visit often."
Unlike the first example there's some specific and non-trivial information there.
haha not sure if you are trying to be funny or you just dont get it.
Build something better is a figure of speech looks like you have taken that literally. If you search for the freshdesk story you will understand there were specific pain points discussed.
FB was better than Myspace, Google was better than other search engines, Slack is better than Skype.
>I agree there are some cases when that may work but my point is that they are very very rare from what I can see.
Do you seriously believe that inventing a new market is less difficult than fixing/improving existing solutions?