Every app for someone is a painkiller, but there could also be things that are just low lift. And I think arguably even within the same light, a certain to do list, like you said, is probably a painkiller for somebody because it likely matches their expectations and the way a to do list does. But now you're getting into like market sizing. How can you find those people at scale or even just find the right resonance with enough people to make it quote unquote a business or not? Yeah. It's hard because as humans sometimes when you're out there hungry, trying to get started on a business or want to work on something, you're just looking for the idea
Vitamin and painkiller products are a classic analogy used in SAAS circles. Which type of business would you prefer to operate? Why? And perhaps the larger question, are these actually useful ways to describe a business?
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