It could be that I need a new perspective, but my impression is that making &#x2F; finding something people want is really hard. Even if you forget about making money.<p>Not sure which examples to give to back my point
- let&#x27;s say you make a car and sell it cheap. Still initially no one will trust the car is worth anything. It&#x27;ll take years of making better cars than competition before reputation is established. With this in mind I tend to buy products &#x2F; services from companies on the rise that need to prove themselves rather than companies &quot;monetising their reputation&quot;. <i>cough</i> VW <i>cough</i><p>I&#x27;m currently reading &quot;Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture&quot; and it strikes me how easy it was to sell a game back then. Like there was much more demand than supply so people would buy <i>anything</i>.<p>Nowadays just about any market is covered &#x2F; commoditised by a big corporation. And it&#x27;s never the case that they are maxed out on production capacity.<p>My impression is that much more supply of everything and people already have everything they need &#x2F; want and more.<p>Can someone who witnessed the tech revolution of the last 20 years say if it was any different at any point? Was it ever obvious what people need and &quot;if you build it, they will come&quot;?
Ask HN: Why making something people want is so hard?