“I needed to reduce my space of ideas to something that I can really build. It should be a quality product. And since I was a backend developer, I knew how to build APIs — that was kind of my super skill.”

Cut your idea space to ideas your existing skills can actually ship at quality

Pick ideas you can ship at quality with your existing skill stack and discard everything else. A backend developer should weigh API products heavily and skip ideas that require mobile or design depth they don't have.