# A personal fix becomes a product when others share the pain

- Category: product
- Author: Camil (https://indie.md/people/camil/)
- Source: https://indie.md/journeys/camil-soundscrub/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/from-personal-fix-to-product/

SoundScrub began as a script Camil wrote to clean the background noise out of his own holiday footage. The leap to a product came from one question: do enough other people have this exact pain? Scratching your own itch is a great way to start, but it only becomes a business when you confirm the itch is widely shared and worth paying to scratch. Build the thing that solves your problem first, because you understand it deeply, then go check that travelers and videographers are loudly describing the same problem before you commit to productizing it.