How to find the best startup ideas

It is really simple.

One of the most commonly asked questions in the Indiehackers community is “How do you find the perfect ideas?” and “What are some tiny startup ideas”?

The truth is you can’t really discover or think of totally original ideas, you can be obsessed with the new shiny original ideas of yours that you’ve finally found it. Until you google search and found there are 10 other startups that already had a working product in the market.

You MUST accept that and move on without dwindling around looking for the “perfect” idea because I am happy to bet money 10/10 times that you would never find one.

So, how do you find the perfect idea?

Simple. You start with a not-so-perfect idea. Or, in most cases, a bad idea, and that is totally fine!

The point is, as long as you start somewhere, good ideas WILL find you and not the other way around.

Most great businesses out there started with bad ideas and pivoted into good ones over time.

What is the lesson here? YOU JUST NEED TO START SOMEWHERE.

Think about one problem that you wanted to solve, and try to look for inefficiency in software or industry that you cares about. It could be anything really. Was the existing solution too slow? Too expensive? Not doing things the way you wanted? And, you know you can do it better?

Start from there. Nothing original, nothing noble, and not the next big thing. Just a guy/gal trying to solve a problem.

Once you started from somewhere, you are already on the right step toward building something that could be potentially meaningful and impactful even to a handful of customers.

Not just standing still in the same place and trying to come up with the perfect original big idea of yours.

In order to find the best startup ideas, start from a bad one and work it up. Good ideas will eventually find you.