How to find a new business idea after shutting down a company
Six years running a single agency creates severe tunnel vision that makes spotting alternative opportunities nearly impossible. Founders get stuck cycling through countless ideas while desperate to regain a sense of purpose and a business to build.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Brainstorming and pivoting to physical service businesses like home services or exterior cleaningDid this help you?
- 2Talking to existing clients or network contacts to find workflow gaps and problems to solveDid this help you?
- 3Shifting agency positioning away from website design toward lead generation and accountabilityDid this help you?
- 4Running WordPress hosting and maintenance servicesDid this help you?
- 5Building web design and IT agency servicesDid this help you?
- 6Creating a lead generation marketplace platformDid this help you?
- 7Running ads to acquire customersDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm just struggling to find any service or business to apply it to.”source ↗
“I think as I've been in this business for 6 years now I almost have tunnel vision on any new opportunities.”source ↗
“Does anyone have any advice on how to find new opportunities.”source ↗
“Im now exploring new ideas and finding new products/services. Been through countless amounts of ideas but finally think I have found one that can work”source ↗
“I hope I find that other thing soon as I'm desperate to have a purpose and a business to build again.”source ↗
“For 7 years I've run a few small businesses that honestly work more like expensive hobbies. I'm back where I started.”source ↗
“What I want is something I can sell a hundred times without being the bottleneck. I want the result to be the leverage, not my hours.”source ↗
“So how did you find a problem worth solving, and how did you know it was the one?”source ↗
Where this came up
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