For three years I thought building software worked like this: I get an idea, I build it, I ship it, and let's see what it catches. Eight projects, none of them finished, zero users. And I spent all of it sitting at my desk, sitting on the couch, asking an LLM, reading forums, looking for validation inside documents, and I honestly thought that was research. I had my ideal customer perfectly defined, the problem is that this customer existed under my own description , with the character...