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Digital product ideas: how to find one worth building
Lists of "100 digital product ideas" give you formats — courses, templates, workbooks. They don't tell you which idea a specific audience will want.
A stronger approach: start with one person, one painful problem and one result, then check the idea before you build anything.
1. Pick one specific person
"Busy people" is too broad. "New dog owners with a puppy that won't settle at night" is specific enough to write for.
2. Look where problems are already discussed
Comment sections, community threads, reviews of existing products and the questions a creator's audience keeps asking. Repeated questions point to a real need.
3. Check the problem gets worse if ignored
Ideas tied to a problem that grows over time are easier to explain than "nice to have" topics.
4. Define the result and the format
Write the promise: "I help [who] with [worsening problem] get to [result] in [time]." Then choose the format that delivers it fastest — a short course, a template pack or a workbook.
5. Score it before you build
Rate the idea 1–5 on Pain, Worsening Pain, Transformation, Specificity and Speed. Ideas scoring 20 or more out of 25 are worth drafting. Try it below.
15 / 25 — sharpen before building (20+ needed)
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