coffee talk and small businesses

I recently started playing Coffee talk: Tokyo. I'm a huge fan of this series and I have played the first two games. i love the dynamics between the characters, the storylines, the dialogue. It always inspires me to open a place like Coffee Talk. 

Unfortunately where I live, there isn't a whole lot of options for a "third space," or funky, alt, small cafes. Around me, its primarily built for retired folks and there isn't a whole lot to do here. I've even thought to myself, what if I were to start one? Would it be successful? Would it completely fail and ruin my life? How do you market that within this community? 

How do places like that stay alive? 

Back when I lived in a bigger city and was going to school, I felt like these shops existed everywhere, and I loved them. But I wondered how they stayed open, they never seemed full. I am pretty ignorant to the business side of those things. But again....a place where you have regulars and chat as you work, have a warm, whimsical environment.... I just love that idea. It inspires me, motivates me. But unfortunately I am not a risk taker, and I worry if I even did have the balls to do something like that, it would blow up in my face. 

This is kind of the feeling I had for when I tried to start up an online crochet shop. I really wanted to make money off my hobby, and at the time (again in school) I was really into it. But I quickly realized through friends and acquaintances that nobody was willing to pay the "true cost" of a crochet piece. And to be honest, neither would I! I get it! It's expensive! I also feel like what I crochet doesn't bring anything new to the market, so I lost that competitive edge I suppose. 

Same thing goes for when I tried being a twitch streamer yearsssss ago. I just felt like I didn't bring anything new to the table. Plus the games i played aren't really the best for streaming, and I never really wanted to ever speak in my streams to essentially nobody. i am not very charismatic in that regard! 

But then like I am sitting here, typing this and thinking to myself...what is my intention? Am I trying to be rich off these schemes? Trying to help others? Have fun? Be famous? 

I guess I just want a cozy community when it comes to the third space and streaming stuff. And for my store, I just wanted to have a fun job.

I dunno. Maybe i am just not build to be a small business owner.