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> If you want to build software that will be used, you need to interview the users.

Some people write (I hate the word "build" here) software for non-business purposes. As nice as it would be to interview potential users, there's no clear way to discover and contact them.

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In the educational universe, this "interviewing" is more common than not. Teachers are asked to give feedback on textbooks, calculators, and software, including lots of educational half-baked A. I. garbage. Some even offer us food for our feedback. Can you give an example of a type of software which is developed with "no clear way" to contact users?

> Can you give an example of a type of software which is developed with "no clear way" to contact users?

... probably the majority (by package count) of the Python ecosystem? Or the JS one?

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