In today's software development and independent development fields, there is a direction that is easily overlooked but contains huge potential, which is to tap the needs of "boring areas".
It is not difficult to find that many excellent software are born in seemingly boring fields. Take software company Intuit, for example. This is a large company with annual revenue of tens of billions. Many of its products may seem "boring" at first glance, such as accounting, tax preparation, and email. software. One of the key products is called QuickBooks. It is such an accounting software, but it has more than 7 million paying users, which is really amazing.
Take products like accounting software as an example. They have a very important requirement, which is integration. After all, data scattered in different places, such as data from website systems, e-commerce systems, customer relationship management systems, etc., must be integrated into accounting software. However, the reality is that there are only 120 plug-ins in the QuickBooks application store, which is far from meeting the strong integration needs of users.
Since the above integration requirements are not fully met, we can actually use some keyword research tools, such as searching for "QuickBooks integration", and we will find that various integration requirements emerge in endlessly. From this, we might as well boldly imagine how great it would be if we could build a comprehensive trading market specifically for this software and adopt a subscription model so that users can use all the technical plug-ins in this market for free. Flat price. Something fun and full of opportunity.
In short, whether you develop independently or make software, if you pay more attention to these seemingly boring areas, you may be able to discover unexpected treasures and create popular products. You are also welcome to share your views on the development of boring fields in the comment area, or talk about similar successful cases you know. I look forward to discussing it with you. I also hope that everyone will share this article more so that more developers can read it. Opportunity comes into it.
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