I did many projects with web scrapping, that is in the past without AI :)
always felt nice to gather data but rarely could i do something useful with them or some sort of a good product. So today i dont think data is the problem, rather usefulness, PMF and marketing
hm you would need to use tools like google trends and some keyword research to find something people are already looking for naturally but isnt really there. That may work.
Guess i would invest most of it stock index investing would be enough. Then i would do some travelling. I may not give up on my job right away even tho in my country the 4% from the 1M would be enough.
Do have some nostalgia towards ICQ, think it was great at finding people based on interest and geo-location. Dont think there is anything like that now, but i also think it cant be copied.
Man i have a whole grave yard of projects that failed, most of the time the problem is i can build it but i cant sell it :D so not even sure if it could sell if i knew how.
On the other hand i did gain some fulfilment while building my projects, sometimes learned something and sometimes even earned some money in a different way
Got 6 weeks worth of salary, managed to find a job within a month or so, so it wasnt too bad, but i only got the same salary (i didnt ask for more since i needed a job :D, its different if one does not need a new job)
It didnt feel good but i shacked my feelings of and moved on pretty quickly.