Comment by ClipNoteBook
Comment by ClipNoteBook 3 days ago
Thanks for the reply. To be honest I love the coding part, but getting users or even testers to actually try the tool is a nightmare for me. I am still trying to figure out a clean way to commercialize my projects without getting flagged as spam everywhere. And yeah the building in public idea is exactly what I just started doing. If you are curious, I have a blog page for the tool where I am writing what I am learning. Happy to share the link: https://clipnotebook.com/blog
You are not alone. You like coding. That's where all the fun is. You code things uou want, things that interest you. Since you like to, you know, eat occasionally, you start thinking about monetizing your code.
Unfortunately, as you are learning, this is 100% backwards. Writing something that is commercially successful starts by identifying a potentially commercial product.
In other words, you need to start by Marketing, not programming. You're looking for 3 things;
A market you can reach; That have money to spend; That are prepared to spend money to make some pain go away.
It might be obvious that a market might exist (say something that makes govt more effective) but selling to govt requires enormous resources you don't have.
It might be obvious a market exists (a tool for refugees to apply for aid) but they have no money to buy anything from you.
It might be obvious a market exists (trips to the moon) but you can't build that.
Once you have found a market you can reach, who have some money, and are willing to spend (perhaps with a deposit) then (and only then) should you start coding.
Commercializing stuff you have already made is hard because the product was tailored to a specific user, and he already has it (aka you).