AI’s ‘boring’ aspect that can make you fortunate

Most people who build with AI are chasing the same thing: viral chat boats, cool demo or next trending wrapper. But I think the real money-shangin, a unicorn level is completely somewhere else.

This is in something that no one wants to touch. Practicing, wasting time, must work. The things you hate, but have to do. The next wave of AI companies will emerge in the same place.

Hurt> beautiful

AI what makes you laugh is fun. AI that files your tax, is your visa configured or are your documents organized? This life is changing.

When I went to the UK on the World Talent Visa, I could not find a single tool to track my absence – which is an important thing to maintain legal status. So I made it myself. Not to show. Just to solve a problem I was quietly out.

This is a “boring” problem that most people ignore. But if it causes stress, repetition or fear – it is valuable.

There is more money in fixing a painful workflower, which is to chase 100 likes on a Fancy AI influx avatar.

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The more disturbing it is, the bigger the opportunity

Scheduleing medical appointments. Submit the invoice. Picking alcohol from a 40 -page restaurant list. These are not sexy problems. But they are everywhere, and no one enjoys dealing with them.

I have created apps that care for these same scenarios. Had some simple side projects, but they solved the problems that people are Recurrence Run this is a magic formula.

In a piece that I wrote earlier -7 AI-based business ideas that can make you wealthy-I pointed out that extremely profitable ideas often hide in simple eyes. This is another example of this.

No team? No problem.

Now the available tools are ridiculous. With GPT -4O, Soup Base, Varsal and Cloud, I launched the entire product in a week.

No designer. No backbone engineer. Just a traumatic idea, an AI stack and some cups of coffee.

I’m not the only I have seen that a person’s shops manufacture apps that manage apartments, produce legal documents, and even coach you through IVF. They are calm tools with flawless interface, but they are deeply useful.

If you are a founder today, your MVP does not need to be impressive – it just needs to disappear someone’s headache.

Build for Tuesday, not for Tech Twitter

I know that some of the smarter founders are not trying to go viral. They’re built for Tuesday – for a problem that collides with 4:00 pm when you get stuck in the bureaucratic loop and require Somebody (Or something else) to handle it for you.

And here’s: the more the problem has to be bored, the less the competition. The founders of AI are still chasing novelty. This is your benefit.

This article of neglected metor jobs has made a similar point: There is a fortune in places to ignore people.

Boring means not small

If you told someone a decade ago that accounting automation or AI -powered scheduling tools would probably be laughing as a billion dollars.

Now those tools run quietly in the background of almost every business.

Lesson: Don’t be able to clap. Build for relief. If your product makes it easy for someone to breathe, saves them time or reduces stress – they will pay for it.

Even if they never tweet about it.

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Boring tools can still make billions of dollars of companies

If you need evidence, see Expection. It was launched by solving one thing: making expenses report less painful. It’s not interesting, not revolutionary – just useful. No one dreams of scanning receipts, but millions of people have to do it.

Now Remies is implemented in billions of transactions. The reason for this is that it made a disturbing task easier.

The same story with calendley, which killed behind scheduling. Doxine, which relieved the pain of printing and scanning contracts. Uipath, who automated office tasks and built a large -scale business.

None of them was shiny, but they decided to deal with people every day. That is why they work.

If you are building with AI, forget the hype. Look for the problems that people suffer quietly. About which they never talk publicly, but permanently dealt with. This is the place where the best ideas live.

Boring is not a weakness. Boring is a business model.

You do not need any revolutionary idea. You just need to remove a disturbing thing.

If you can do it, it doesn’t matter how it looks like it. It will be sold.