If you do all the other recommended things, you'll start hanging out with people who spend money to solve real business problems. The projects will come to you then.

Would you say this is true even if you're not living in a tech hub like SF?

Yes. You'll meet different kinds of business owners, but they will have real problems.

I see - would you also agree that you will meet other people (such as other programmers/designers/etc) over time? I haven't met more than five at my current job.

IMO the hardest part is not finding the product, it is finding a person to handle the marketing/sales for you.

Most of the time I would assume there's always someone you can work with for this.

Finding other programmers or like minded people is the hardest part it seems for me.

For me, I can't do the front-end stuff, so I am stuck with not able to do anything with my ideas. This is where the networking part would help.

> For me, I can't do the front-end stuff

Why not? What's stopping you from learning?

I tried many times, I simply doesn't seem to be good at it.

I'm in a similar situation, but don't think of this as an unsolvable problem:

1. Find people who are great at it and be interested in how they do it. I think of this as learning to read good design before you write it. They may be interested in how you do what you do as well. 2. For me, one of the most productive steps was learning the basic mechanics of the bootstrap CSS framework. It did not make me better at designing beautiful web pages, but it did help me make something minimally usable (i.e. not repulsive) that lets me get my ideas roughed out. With a few days of learning, you may be surprised by what you can do. 3. If the best you can do is a cookie cutter design that lets you get started, congratulations! You can get started! What I mean is, I have felt what you are feeling, and there are ways around the problem. Good luck!