Seeing what kind of companies get funded.... It’s either some stupid small niche idea, and I would’ve been embarassed to ask angel money for it. Or it’s some huge and complex thing that requires a lot of inside knowledge, i.e. let’s disrupt health insurance. For that I usually don’t have enough knowledge and belief that I could solve it. So the question is - how do people decide to go all in on those ideas.
You should just make some. Like these guys: funwithballs.com/
Find a problem that bugs you. Most of the startups I worked for or have followed simply we're annoyed with how difficult something was and developed software to make it easier.
What’s your background? Look into design thinking and the lean startup book by Eric weis,
Mobile engineer. Worked on many different products.
Do lots of customer research without leading questions and use some surveys so it isn’t as much of a time suck. Marketing and branding will likely make or break whatever you make
See Paul Graham’s post on how to come up with startup ideas. It’s a classic.
When you actually get people to use your app/software/website. Numbers don’t lie. Create something 100 absolutely love using. They’ll help market your product/service. If you have an hot startup, VC’s will come hunting for you. VC’s have numbers to hit too.
To do that I would need to settle on an idea. My question is more about thought process of idea selection. I have some imposter syndrome in regards to small ideas and fear of big ideas
Start with your first idea. Create it. Market it. Analyze the number of users. If no one is using it, move onto next idea. Repeat.