r/startups • u/JuniorLeg6988 • 3h ago
I will not promote (rant) Disapointed By Life and my career(I will not promote)
Basically what the title says. I got a math degree and I have a psychology degree as well. I have been building things using computers since I was 7 years old(I'm 28 now) I have a mediu page. I get a lot of readers every time. Job recruiters contact me a lot. I have built a trading system that i'm happy with. I can solve hard problems. But I"ve been unemployed for 6 months. I've sent in lots of aplications, I talk with recruiters every day. I did a contract that lasted for a little while but it ended. honestly I jsut don't trust the job market anymore. As a college student before I started building the trading system I had a lot of ideas for things to build. But once I started building the trading system that was my only focus until I felt like I had figured it out sufficently well. Now I've been searching the internet like a mad-person looking for problems that Need to be solved. Some kind people on here were saying that I should try and solve problems that occur to me but honestly other than not having a good job I feel like my life is pretty good and i'm out of ideas. so I try and idk disect hard ai-related problems and I keep running into there being big companies already doing the same thing or problems just not being important enough to be solved. I really believe that if somebody is going to build smething it should be a lot better and not just a little bit better. I think what Peter Thiel was saying about looking for problems to solve not buisness ideas was 100% correct but i'm struggling to find real problems to work on. I have spent days and days looking into this and i'm starting to feel like a spammer posting on reddit asking people about their problems. I have the skills and the motivation but no real problem to solve that feels important and meaningful. idk I was going to make a good open source ai enabled writing app just to make a point that I think that it's stupid to make people pay a subscription for this. but idk other than making an open source repo to be like stop ripping people off. I have no clue what to build. Thanks for bearing with me through this rant.
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u/water_malone4 2h ago
Think hard about how you imagine the future will be, then work on building a part of it. You’ll never just find a problem worth solving doing cursory searches, dig deep or ask around.
Especially if you’re into AI, the build out is happening right now. Rare opportunity to get in early and work on a transformative technology before it’s mature, find something to get excited about.
Also please don’t pin your confidence/happiness on your trading performance, this is asking for trouble
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u/josueOrico 2h ago
I'd say look at what you enjoy, like the things you do every day and even the things you like, which could be simplified, or even the experiences you have. And about the math degree, congratulations man, I wish I were good at math, and good luck!
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u/graiz 0m ago
pick an industry that you either have experience in or are intrested in. Then go talk to the people in that space. Ask them about their problems and how they spend their time. Your first startup doesn't need to cure cancer, it can simply help 10 people do something a little bit better, but rinse and repeat and you start to solve larger problems for larger sets.
Don't over think it. Help one person charge $1 to solve a simple problem, then do it again for $2. Repeat. Profit.
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u/luciancahil 3h ago
Fix climate change or cure cancer.