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Henry Ford is reputed to have said, "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."

Looking at this forum is fine, but you still have to go through the effort to integrate all of these disparate and narrow desires into something larger that you can build a business on. That's hard! Staying motivated while working on a problem that you don't have yourself is even harder.




I think the idea is to look for inspiration, not specifications. (At least, that's how I hope people would go about it)


Or in more concrete terms, customer problems that need solving.


Perhaps bioengineering would have advanced much further by now if he built a faster horse




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