How to build something people will pay you for, in 5 steps

1. Look at all the problems you experience yourself, pick a painful one.

2. Talk to people who experience the same problem through DMs or surveys.

3. Build MVP that solves problem.

4. Share MVP to the same people you talked to before.

5. Improve MVP based on their feedback.

Now you have a product worth paying for.

This is how I did it for my project Buildpad and it's now at 1800+ users + 50+ paying customers, so don't say it doesn't work.