If you're 11 or 12
The four fakes, simpler:
- No real person. "An app for kids" is fake. "An app for my sister Lyla, age 9, who plays Roblox" is real.
- Person doesn't care. If they wouldn't already be trying to fix it on their own, they won't pay you to fix it.
- Too hard to build. If your idea needs a server farm or a license from the government, pick a smaller version of the same idea.
- Everyone else built it. If a famous app does what you described, you need a really specific reason yours is different for your specific person.
Take the candidate you came out of Lesson 2 with. Run it through those four checks. If it passes, great. If it fails, that's also great. You just saved yourself two months of building the wrong thing.
A failed candidate at the start of Module 1 is a win. A failed candidate at the end of Module 6 is a disaster.