I just shut down my business a few weeks ago and let customers use their remaining credits. Now I just want to start over in 2026, but despite having a lot of ideas (most of them are impossible sci-fi inspired ones) I'm confused what can actually sell in 2026.
I am AI engineer (no, not someone with knowledge of prompting ChatGPT, I just studied AI when there was no GPT released, developing CNNs, RNNs, Object Detectors, etc.) and my last business was a generative AI platform.
I just need general advice, specially from people in tech. And think like this, this thread will help a lot of other young entrepreneurs to find their true ways.
Thanks.
If you want start over in 2026, what you will chase and what you will avoid?
byu/Haghiri75 inEntrepreneur
Posted by Haghiri75
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Try and sell to businesses. SaaS is so saturated now and if you don’t have a distribution channel it’s not worth it to pursue B2C SaaS.
If I were starting over in 2026 I’d chase boring pain not cool tech anything tied to liability compliance risk money or downtime because people buy those fast and without convincing I’d avoid platform plays consumer AI tools and anything that needs education or hype cycles especially gen-AI wrappers the big shift is that execution and distribution matter more than model skill your background is a weapon but only if you attach it to problems with deadlines audits lawsuits regulators or revenue loss attached build things people google at 2am when something went wrong and avoid sci-fi ideas unless a real buyer is already asking for th