Pick a problem you can finish

Good first problems are already being solved with a notebook, a group chat, or a paper list.

Promising shapes

• A price list a stall already writes on cardboard.
• A rota for who opens the shop on Sunday.
• A map of which kiosk has cooking gas today — even if you only list five streets.
• Office hours for a clinic, typed once, shared often.

Reject these for now

• Anything that needs logins for more than you.
• Payments.
• “An app for all of Africa.”
• A clone of a product you cannot operate offline for five minutes.

Write the sentence: For [person], when [moment], this page does [one action]. If you need a second sentence, cut the idea.