Your advice needed

hey /biz,

i've always wanted to start a software development company. so i studied computer science and participated in various "start up/ entrepreneur" courses in college. but the more i try to figure out how i could create a service or product to work with and how to gain customers, the more i think all those efforts will be going to fail. there are lots of companies offering software development as a service or selling a product like a crm tool on a higher level than i could offer (without an investor who gives me enough the capital to hire other 20 devs and designers). i can't find a way to start up. during my studies i gained the skills to create software products during my college time but i don't know what to build. the area i'm currently living in has not much more than a malfunctioning tourist industry. people here don't use twitter and are totally overwhelmed by the fact such a thing like facebook exists. what sounds like great opportunities is a nightmare. nobody seems to want to try out new technologies, nobody wants to digitalize their processes. there are a few companies which opperate in the dev sector but i have no clue how to get in. how can i compete with them without offering hilarious low and unrealistic prices? has somebody of you started a software company? what did you do to succeed? how did you approached potential customers? did you build a similar business? please tell me your stories and share your advice with me.

tldr

kneepads.

Buy DGB and BitBean

oh no

nope. i can't foresee how this crypto thing will evolve. it would be a complete bet and that would be too risky for me.

It's true, unless you're individually striking it big with your own original idea (close to gambling), you have to think of something that is going to be practical, require your support, and probably cost more to get it off its feet before it becomes profitable.

There is no real magic way to "come up" with something. The rich tech innovators were largely snakes, smart guys who stole an idea they could recognize as lucrative and then got lucky otherwise.

Maybe look into fixing software/hardware issues for people, or remote work, and finally: moving somewhere that actually has a tech scene.

oh yes, you are going to need significant funding to market ,distribute , scale and hire maintenance, sales and support staff, unless you have saved up money already, or save created some sort of software system that can scale and market and maintain itself.
But if that was your plan, i don't think you would be here asking advice...

so yes.

kneepads

thanks for your advice. i'm would definitely move to an area where a tech scene and other industries reside. how would it go from here on? is there a way to get in contact with people who know what an industry needs? e.g. i read about cloud based service for vending machines (they send their data in to the cloud and an algorithm decides when to send a technician (a small optimization problem)).

oh damn... :'( i guess kneepads means cocksucking 'til the end of my days...

You really have to get your foot into the industry to understand it. Not that it's amazingly difficult it's just the best way to start your working knowledge and progress from there.

So a job, internship, anything with a company. May tell you what you like and don't. As to what to know? Be proficient in JavaScript, C#/Java, and SQL. There are hundreds of meme languages and frameworks but this is the dimension you work from today.