I feel like getting customers to talk to me is the hardest part. Even when I have hundreds of people using an MVP for free, literally less than five would say anything in the Discord.

I feel like I could immediately build multiple great products using generative AI for specific communities. If I could just get three people from that community to tell me what they were trying to do and then try the solution I build.

But it seems like people just want to do the specific activity they are doing in the specific niche they are in. They don't want to do new things. So it seems like somehow it's a social problem not a technical one. I need to be inside of a community and observe their existing activities and insert something that just makes it easier. Without requiring them to think differently or try something new or go outside their niche.

I did do that last year and managed to make several hundred dollars on transaction fees multiple months in a row. That was a big win, for me. But it was a small niche and that dried up.