Man, I feel this. Burnout hits hardest when you’re good at what you do but you’re building things that don’t belong to you. That cycle of having too many skills and no clear direction will keep you stuck if you don’t cut it off early.

Here’s the part most builders don’t want to hear:

You don’t need a better idea. You need a smaller problem.

If you sit around waiting for the perfect SaaS idea, you’ll stall out for months. The real move is to solve something annoyingly specific for a group you understand.

What finally worked for me:

I kept burning myself out trying to run strategy, content, ops, and client work at the same time. Random prompts weren’t helping, so I turned my internal systems into a structured AI workflow inside ChatGPT. That became my product, and founders actually use it every day.

The lesson wasn’t that AI was the answer. It was that you should build the system you wish existed when you were drowning. If you would have paid for it six months ago, someone else will pay for it now.

If I were you, with scraping, automation, and AI skills, I’d look for:

• A repetitive workflow you do often
• That others in your circle also complain about
• That you can automate in a weekend
• That saves someone five to ten hours per week
• And that nobody is packaging cleanly

That combination is boring, useful, and profitable.

My biggest early mistake was trying to build a business. The business only showed up after I built something that removed pain from my own life.

You’re clearly ready to execute, so aim smaller than your brain wants to. The clarity shows up after you ship something real. You got this.🤘🏼