Solutions!

But honestly, this isn’t actually bad advice for developers. Even if you have an amazing product, if your execution or marketing sucks it’ll do mediocre at best. Meanwhile, there’s real money ready for the taking if you go about solving problems that people actually have.

Example: a YouTuber I follow had some software read out text from a screenshot on his stream; he said he’d had that program built for that purpose. OCR and TTS model, output to audio source of the user’s choice. Quite simple, an experienced dev could make a few hundred bucks on that.

Example 2: I’m pretty technically capable but I want a text to video generator and can’t be bothered learning to set it up. I’m far from rich, but I paid someone $250 to build a simple prototype with a web interface and a model downloader.

Anyone can do this, the real work is finding those opportunities in the first place, and this guy is just saying to look closer to home for small simple jobs. Those small simple paycheques add up in the time you might have spent chasing a unicorn.