If you can’t find any users for your idea often the first thing you can do to find some is be even more specific about the use-case it works best for. Do it even if it means the market is small because a small market is better than no market. You can often widen it later.
Curiously, this also seems to be a common technique in math. If you can't prove something, try to prove a narrower version of it.
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Also in economics, where a model is built around certain assumptions for it to hold true in very specific situations.
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Divide and conquer
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Another thing that works well in mathematics is: if you can't prove a specific result, then try to prove something more general.
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mathematical induction
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Goal setting: can’t decide what to pick.. then be specific about a distinct narrow goal and aim for it. Also communication it’s super important (ie and management : leadership)
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This is one of the heuristics mentioned in Poloya's "How To Solve It". Maybe some other heuristics from there might be useful too.
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Or with getting into groups. If you can’t get in with the group, find one person, swing them, and have them bring you in.
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someone very smart said recently...paraphrasing a bit "if two ideas are the same pay attention, you might be onto something"
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Often it is not so much the narrowing of an assertion that renders it more tractable, but rather its transposition into a (somehow) analogous context. We can prove the Riemann hypothesis over function fields.
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