Ask HN: Does This Make Sense?
What do they mean exactly?
I think this advice is one of those things people repeat because at the surface level it makes sense. You have a solution for a problem, so find those who have the problem. But when you think about it, it does not make any sense. It is more like it sounds like "I got a small loan of one million dollars from my father." Technically correct, but what is left out is actually what defeats any merit the statement might ever have.
In my life, I have never said "I wish there was a place I could go, or someone I could talk to so that I am sold to." The adblock industry is a testament to my experience. People hate ads so much that advertisers were forced to create programming useful enough that ads would merely be a side effect.
So what exactly do people mean by "talk to people"? At bare minimum, the statement must be qualified first. Talk to your network. If you do not have one, do something else.