What is a problem?

Five months ago you couldn't build anything. Now you can build games, websites, and Python programs — which means the hard question has changed.

It's no longer "how do I build this?" It's "what is worth building?"

Most first projects fail not because the code was bad, but because they solved a problem nobody had. So this month starts where real products start: find someone with a genuine problem.

Real problems rarely announce themselves. They show up as small, repeated irritations people have stopped noticing:

• Someone keeps a list on paper and loses it
• The same question gets asked in the class group every single week
• A task takes twenty minutes that should take two
• People forget something regularly and there's no reminder

When somebody says "it's fine, I'm just used to it" — pay attention. That sentence is where problems hide.