Go to startup events. Listen to ideas. You will find some nuggets of goodness in there. This will also get you thinking. Don’t worry about ideas belonging to someone else. Most just have ideas and won’t even explore them, plus execution on the idea matters.
You can also join someone else’s startup. Nothing wrong with that.
Ok, the first thing you need to do is to take all of your ideas and put them together in your head, and then sit down and document them. Come up with a coherent idea. Don’t worry, right now, it’s just a bunch of ideas flowing around in your head, and we all understand that. Write these ideas down and come up with something that makes sense and you would feel comfortable in saying and explaining to someone else.
Once you have something coherent, talk to some people that have experience in that area. See if the idea makes sense to them. See if they and some of their contacts would sign a letter of intent to purchase. Only if you can get a few signers would I even then think about writing any software. No sense in wasting time on something no one will buy.
Good luck!
Yes, yes, yes! This! You get it!
If you have a server side and an android version up and running, launch an MVP with that. Don’t wait on iOS, just put something out there. When someone asks about the iOS version, tell the truth that you are working on it.
Have you validated that someone will actually pay for the product? It’s easy to say, “sure, I’ll pay for it.” It is another thing to get them to actually pay for it. You can overcome this by getting people to sign a non binding letter of intent.
The first thing to do is to contract with an engineering firm that specializes in land development. They can work with you on the quality of the land
From 2015? You’ll have to go google for it.
Fully remote is a horrible idea, like really, really bad. Sure, everyone thinks that fully remote is great because it is great for them. However, it really isn’t. Why? Simply because less work is done. I remember reading a study regarding remote work done back in about 2015. The finding was that when remote work was allowed, not fully remote, just some remote, there was less work that was done. In software development, there was source code checkins. Checkins fell off significantly on Fridays. Management decided that people were required to be back in the office more, more checkins happened, and more software updates were completed on time. Life feels much more transactional in a mobile environment. There is much less interaction. There is much less interaction. There is much less brain storming.
Quite simply, I’m not a fan of full remote at all.
Start with a good idea. Execute on the idea. That means go talk to some potential customers that you do not know. If you can get some commitments there, then you’ve got a good idea and you can likely go make some sales once you have a product. It takes marketing and sales for a good product to be successful.
Go find five people that would pay money for this product. That is the feedback that you need. Get them to sign a letter of intent to buy when you deliver.
You are in an entrepreneur group. There are also a bunch of startup founders here.
I have found that cheap offshore outsourcing is a really bad idea. This is from experience. You yourself say “relatively cheap hourly salary”
In the startup world, development requires a lot of back and forth communication. I have seen a lot of this. You have a couple of customers and you’ve had some success, so you think this will work with everyone. You might have had some customers that document to the nth degree what needs to happen. You’ve had some “big clients,” though I’m not sure what you mean by that. The startup world is completely different. Entrepreneurs live in a world of constant change. Entrepreneurs are a very different world where there is only one person likely able to do things. They don’t have time to document things
I’ve heard these and similar claims from others. I’m sure that you’ve had great people that you’ve worked with on your side. I’m not bad mouthing you. I’ve never seen this model work, ever. I’ve got friends of mine in London that have used Eastern European software outsourcing, and none of them have had any success. To have success with software, you have to have people that you trust and to work with on a face to face basis where it is easy to have communication back and forth. In my consulting work, I’ve had to pick up the pieces from these failed efforts. In the startup world, All I ever saw was garbage, they couldn’t even get the graphics right.
Reddit is full of people that don’t know about software development. I hope they don’t make a mistake and think that cheap out sourcing will work.
Another guy selling cheap outsourcing that doesn’t work to people that don’t know what they are buying. There an all kinds of problems with outsourcing outside the building, especially for startups and entrepreneurs.
Web apps are fine to start. They are great for most MVPs, like 99%. Sometimes, you need something more that is only available via a mobile app, but those are rare.
Ultimately, it depends on the use case.
FYI, there are platforms that allow you to make multiple platforms from one code base and look like every other app on a platform.
Congrats. I’m one of the “ideas are worthless” guys. There is a specific situations where “ideas are worthless.” I hate patents, but patents are important. The point I am getting at is things are only valuable or worthless within the context that they are in. People tend to look at things only thru the view of the extreme, and that is where you get the “ideas are worthless” statements and ideas are worthless without the execution to give the, value. When you are sitting there throwing around ideas, that is where ideas are worthless. You had already gone out and done work. The idea and the work together created value.
Good job!