I'm building games and tools for language learning. While talking to users, I asked them what language learning tools they wished existed when they were studying in the past. A lot of them talked about a tool that lets them talk to native speakers of their target language online.
I know I should build something users want, but there are plenty of tools that let you do this (including a YC company, cambly) and I don't want to build another one. So what do I do with their answer to my question?
If there are plenty of tools which do this (and you're right, I think there are), but there are still a lot of people who want them but aren't using them, then the existing companies are missing something. It could be that the existing products don't work in quite the right way; sometimes small differences are important. Or it could be that the companies haven't figured out the right way to reach customers.
When users tell you this, do you show them the existing products you know of? If your hypothesis is right that the space is saturated, then they should start using them right away. But I suspect that they won't, which means that there's more left to be done.
I'm building games and tools for language learning. While talking to users, I asked them what language learning tools they wished existed when they were studying in the past. A lot of them talked about a tool that lets them talk to native speakers of their target language online.
I know I should build something users want, but there are plenty of tools that let you do this (including a YC company, cambly) and I don't want to build another one. So what do I do with their answer to my question?