problem is, don't know how to do market research on something like this. How do you show pressing need for this by interviewing people?
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I don't think this is that type of thing. It's much more product-driven than customer. Build it and they will come category
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that's hard to do when you don't have more existing capital.
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Some days I wish I could have just come up with a nice inconsequential B2B subscription service or something.
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It's actually made me a bit bitter/disillusioned. Being a visionary/creator (to modest extent that I am) is REALLY tough in actuality.
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I haven't worked on it since Sept. Instead I applied to grad schools, & now I'm about to apply for more jobs at architecture firms.
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(& sorry for any apparent negativity; hard to condense the course of a yearlong project which kind of burned me out into a few tweets!)
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So thank you for your suggestions & encouragement. I really like the idea of somehow having hope for this project again.
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pt of my problem had to do w/ hearing too much from relatives who didn't value my project or anything entrepreneurial.
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once you step a lil outside of tech cultural bubble, it's amazing how many people you encounter who still think startups are psychotic.
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startups ARE psychotic. Very definition of "reality distortion field." That doesn't mean you shouldn't do them
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Agree & want to find way to get back into it. Think another pt of my prob. was coming from architecture, not having connections in tech

