"Most people building with AI are chasing the same thing: viral chatbots, cool demos or the next trending wrapper. But I think the real money - the serious, unicorn-level money - is somewhere else entirely. It's in the stuff nobody wants to touch. Tedious, time-wasting, must-do tasks. The things you hate doing, but have to. That's where the next wave of AI companies will emerge."
"AI that gets your taxes filed, your Visa sorted or your documents organized? That's life-changing. When I moved to the UK on a Global Talent visa, I couldn't find a single tool to track my absence days - something crucial for maintaining legal status. So I built it myself. Not to show off. Just to solve a problem I was quietly freaking out about."
"There's more money in fixing one painful workflow than chasing 100 likes on a fancy AI-generated avatar. Related: Don't Be Afraid to Embrace Boring Ideas The more annoying it is, the bigger the opportunity Scheduling medical appointments. Submitting invoices. Picking wines from a 40-page restaurant list. These aren't sexy problems. But they're everywhere, and no one enjoys dealing with them."
Most AI builders chase viral chatbots, demos, or trendy wrappers while real economic opportunity lies in automating tedious, must-do tasks. Painful, repetitive, and stressful workflows like tax filing, visa tracking, scheduling medical appointments, submitting invoices, and selecting meals create high value when solved. Personal experience shows niche tools for absence tracking solved critical legal needs. Small solo teams can launch full products quickly using modern AI stacks such as GPT-4o, Supabase, Vercel, and Claude without designers or backend engineers. Fixing a single painful workflow can be more profitable than pursuing viral attention for flashy demos.
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