The money is in INR (Indian National Rupee) and 45 thousand will approx get you a Pixel 9a. So,there is that for comparasion :p
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Solutions!
But honestly, this isn't actually bad advice for developers. Even if you have an amazing product, if your execution or marketing sucks it'll do mediocre at best. Meanwhile, there's real money ready for the taking if you go about solving problems that people actually have.
Example: a YouTuber I follow had some software read out text from a screenshot on his stream; he said he'd had that program built for that purpose. OCR and TTS model, output to audio source of the user's choice. Quite simple, an experienced dev could make a few hundred bucks on that.
Example 2: I'm pretty technically capable but I want a text to video generator and can't be bothered learning to set it up. I'm far from rich, but I paid someone $250 to build a simple prototype with a web interface and a model downloader.
Anyone can do this, the real work is finding those opportunities in the first place, and this guy is just saying to look closer to home for small simple jobs. Those small simple paycheques add up in the time you might have spent chasing a unicorn.
he didn't solve anybody problems
Yeah problem-solution oriented business is great. But also as we see with the LinkedIn lunatics, there's an obsession with being a business owner/entrepreneur that honestly hinders it. You're better off working ordinary jobs until you see a problem you're particularly suited to solve. Well unless you're an American with an engineering degree, in that case you can just bid on military contracts they have rules and stuff to make it easy for small businesspeople to soak their hands in blood, and they'll even usually give you plausible deniability. But yeah if that's not an option and all you want is to be an entrepreneur, save yourself some hassle and don't get a degree in cs or engineering or even business, get one in psychology/social work, medicine, or law or go to trade school. Way easier to make a living after founding a plumbing business than a software one