I feel in my bones that I have always meant to be an entrepreneur, a business owner. I've had small successes in the past but nothing that's become big enough to support me long term. I feel like it's now too late as every niche is saturated and my biggest opportunities were 10 years ago and I've blown it. My current life means that I can only work from home so I am limited to online options (I'm a carer). I'm not looking to steal anyone else's success, I simply need inspiration. I don't just need to do this for money I also need stimulated and engaged each day to keep my brain satisfied.
Posted by meginoz
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I’m m not sure what things you think are saturated, but they probably aren’t. Look at what other people are doing in those markets, find flaws (which there are usually many) and fix them in your business. Great way to do this is looking at 2-3 star reviews of theirs on their website or trustpilot. Often filled with valid complaints. Write them down and then write down the solution so you won’t have the same complaints.
Also just start man. I don’t know what business model you have in your head, but just do the one you genuinely feel you’d enjoy and you will gain SO much experience it will be worth it no matter the result
What seems to separate the most successful businessmen from the most mediocre is their willingness to take risk. Spend lots of money, make lots of mistakes and learn from them. Don’t sit on the side of the pool looking down at your toes. Get some skin in the game
I feel you brother.
My TLDR advice to you, is that there are skills that will never go bad. Marketing. If you get good at this, or have a budget, you can market your product.
If you don’t, learn a skill, like design, engineering. Hell cooking will work, but you still need to get something out into the world to see!
Honestly, feel free to steal any idea that you desire. Including my own! Happy to support you.
**I hope my story inspires:**
I went through a stage of burnout sometime ago, and it greatly affected [my business](https://www.24hour.design). Within that burnout, I had endless thoughts of AI replacing a need for my services, etc. Hell I even had someone offer to buy my business the other day, and I was too embarrassed to give out the numbers.
I was making max $450k per year, and out of nowhere I just couldn’t take it anymore. Clients were abusive, buy-out deals went bad, economic tightening, you name the excuse, it was there..
After a few months off, I realized that, yeah there are a ton of different design shops out there, but not every shop has what I have. My experience stands out, and my clients continue to refer on my behalf.
So instead of quitting, which I almost did, my wife convinced me to push on, revamp the site, and learn a new skill. So from December > Now, I spent about 6 months learning how to “market” online (linkedin, X, Quora, Pinterest, IG, Tiktok, Reddit).
I finally had a breakthrough (and continue to do so), but only because I pushed forward and did a little bit every single day. Now my clients have started reaching out to me again, we closed some new deals this month, setup a new e-commerce business, and now generate 10k – 20k in organic traffic each month.
Forget the numbers (noise), understand the journey (signal).
# Just start doing something today, and 6 months from now, you’ll be happy you got started!!!
you should start something in the elderly care business (I’m a healthcare enterpreneur as well). Its massive, overlooked industry, with huge inefficiencies and problems to be solved, which you have first hand experience in (which is a MASSIVE plus).
Here’s my story… https://old.reddit.com/user/sidehustle2025/comments/1c0l98q/i_made_750000_from_my_side_hustles_and_decide_to/
Every niche is not saturated.. Maybe 1% of niches are. You need to start a business and stop thinking about niches.