“As an indie hacker, as a bootstrapper, you can't create the next Uber, you can't create the next Facebook — you need a lot of money for that… You should approach a market which is already validated, and then just find the gap.”

Don't invent — enter a validated market and find the gap competitors leave open

Indie hackers can't fund category-creating moonshots. The winning move is to target a market already validated by big incumbents with paying users, then find a specific gap. Pricing alone is rarely enough — pair it with feature complaints users post publicly.