I remember a story on Startup Podcast (by Gimlet media) about an atheist who looked at top 100 apps, and realized that there was an opportunity to build a better Bible app.

So, sometimes market research is very valuable. This risk you have for "solving problems you personally have" is that you can end up trying to build infra tooling like new databases.

>sometimes market research is very valuable.

I agree! I didn't intent to discount market research.

>This risk you have for "solving problems you personally have" is that you can end up trying to build infra tooling like new databases.

...which is great and should be encouraged, if it's enjoyable! I was thinking more along the lines of an app store ratings scraper

Yeah but I got tired of making things nobody else used lol