Going deeper (for ages 14-18)

Investors call this founder-market fit (FMF). The right idea for a specific founder is one where the founder has unfair access (Reach), the market is real (Frequency), and the founder can actually build a v1 (Buildability). Sound familiar?

Most adult founders fail because they pick ideas by TAM (total addressable market) instead of FMF. They build for a giant abstract market with no specific customer they can reach, no specific pain frequency they can verify, and no ability to ship v1 themselves. They raise money on the slide deck and discover at month 18 that they have no users.

You are running the opposite playbook. You start with you, a 14-year-old with weirdly specific access to weirdly specific people. You pick the highest-fit problem. You build. The market question comes much later, after you have real users.

If you want to go deeper, read Sam Altman's "Researcher" essay and Paul Graham's "Schlep Blindness." Both short. Both free. Both online. Both directly relevant to what you're doing right now.