New Beginnings with Buildspace s5

I recently heard of Buildspace after a buddy shared their link to their s5 acceptance on LinkedIn. Didn't think much of it until I saw a bunch of people posting their invites as well on X. Took a quick look of the website and decided to give it a shot. Here's a quick rundown of my intentions and my mindset on my idea I intend to tackle in the next few weeks for Buildspace s5.

Who is Farza

Farza seems like a pretty cool guy. He's the guy that runs Buildspace. He's done a bunch of things from selling T-shirts and DVDs, to deep learning and machine learning. His mission is to pretty much allow people to ideate on things that seem interesting and build cool stuff.

Orientation

The gist I got from the orientation is that no idea is too small and that every single idea is worth pursuing. You honestly never know how one thing could lead to another. This is what kind of intrigued me initially as well, as I kinda follow the same mindset with what I'm doing with Chamoy and Convergent. I like to be around like-minded people, but also those from different backgrounds. Buildspace seems like the only place on Earth where anyone could build literally anything they want with a community that's ready to support you. There is no gatekeeping in Farza's mission.

What am I going to build?

With Buildspace, you're on a 6 week timeline. That means you need to build, ship, and iterate really fast and keep an extremely tight feedback loop. I'd like to pursue a product in the IoT space.

Take an Ibuprofen

Human nature in general, aims to stray away from tasks that deem inconvenient. When building a product, it is important to build upon on existing human emotion that has unfulfilled needs by the general population of the intended audience. Majority of people (including myself, friends, and family) forget to check filters in their homes. It's extremely cumbersome to climb on a ladder and then carry it from upstairs to downstairs and check the state of each filter. Despite people only having to do this maybe once every three months (varies greatly based on a multitude of factors), there seems to be an unfulfilled need for a product that can automate this process. After making a tweet, I got a large number of DMs and comments encouraging me to build this product out, just furthering the validation even more.

This is a painkiller, not a vitamin.