Examine your list of 10+ ideas you built. Can you identify the "starving crowd" for each of them? Does a starving crowd even exist?

Lots of ideas seem cool. Far fewer ideas are are easy to sell. And often the ideas that are easy to sell are not the same as the cool ideas.

That's why I think building/marketing ideas "backwards" can be more effective. Certainly less risky. First identify the "starving crowd." Then build a hamburger for them[1].

If you identify a painful problem, people will ask how to pay for it even before you start development. I've witnessed this in person. If you describe the problem better than the prospects themselves, they will just assume you have the solution.

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[1]: "Starving crowd" story by Gary Halbert, one of the most successful marketers: https://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/newsletters/direct_mark...

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urbanogt5 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Good point. I think that most of my projects have an audience but reaching them is the step that I struggle with. That's why I feel that I need to reach them somehow, i.e. paid ads.

I'll try what other commenter mentioned, being part of the communities. Reply guy, provide value, and then get some trust, grow my audience and introduce my products.

	▲	bruce511 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you've built 10 products and hot no-where then perhaps your strategy is a bad one. And yes, building something then looking for customers is a bad strategy. I strongly recommend you spend the next month finding a market. Don't start building the next product until you have made sales. If someone says "I'd pay for something that does x" then ask for a deposit. If they say "no", then keep looking. And no, paid advertising is not the solution. That doesn't get you users (at this point). At this point you need to talk to people.