My God, how will I deal with this *very significant* problem? Everything’s so saturated.
A couple of weeks ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic really started to get worse, my friend and I came up with a portable bidet idea.
It was brilliant, and we were so excited to get it to market. From an engineering perspective, the product was simple and would have been cheap to prototype. We could’ve created engaging marketing campaigns, playing around with ‘formal humor.’
But it didn’t work. Only 8 months before we came up with the idea, another group of guys started a crowdsourcing campaign for the same product: a minimalistic, portable, and useful bidet. Their campaign generated over one million dollars. Too saturated.
I’ve had this problem ever since I graduated from college and endeavored on the unforgiving and arduous quest for financial independence.
Back in 2016-2017, I devoted most of my time learning more about the mass customization paradigm shift- how it was reshaping a wide slew of industries. I partnered with a factory employing whole garment machines in China.
Didn’t work- when time came to launch, I learned how competitive the market had already become (my fault for not performing proper market research). It was too saturated and I didn’t have the financial means to compete.
There were a lot more attempts made at finding a business opportunity with less barriers to entry between 2019-present.
Today, I came up with an ingenious way to profit big from freelance websites. I was beyond excited- I knew it would work.
Unfortunately, many others have done it in the past, and the freelance websites have now prohibited it under their terms and conditions. It’s not unethical or illegal in any way- but it would result in less of the profit going to the freelance companies (and much more coming to me :P).
Also, animated real-life stories are all the hype right now- I’m not doing anything unique in that front either. I don’t have the budget to compete with all the vloggers taking advantage of this outlet.
We live in a flattened world that is now much more competitive/saturated.
Sorry if this comes off as arrogant, but I know very well that I have some very unique talents. I have yet to figure out how to take advantage of those ‘messy’ talents in this structured and formulaic world. I need to figure something out.