⚡ 5 New Problems to Build a Startup | ProblemHunt
A 3-year search for a simple tool to track both personal and business finances in one place. Nothing fits.
Website owners constantly need minor edits in the admin panel. They are forced to pay specialists for 5-minute tasks. We need an AI agent that does this on command in the browser.
An indie hacker spends 20-30 hours manually «cold launching» each new product in directories, Reddit, and blogs. There is no tool that fully automates this and proves its effectiveness.
A freelancer often loses in proposal competitions due to the inability to quickly create personalized and visual website concepts for each job order.
A Telegram channel owner is losing their audience without understanding the reasons for unsubscriptions. There is no simple tool for automatically collecting feedback from departed subscribers.
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ProblemHunt
@taxapreneur Argel, thanks for sharing your experience! Maybe it can still be solved somehow, but at least I hope so :)
minimalist phone: creating folders
I love how these two platforms are complementing each other – you will spot the problem, people can build it and launch on Product Hunt or any other platfom :)
ProblemHunt
@busmark_w_nika Nika, I literally thought about the same thing just a few days ago, thank you! And what if someday Product Hunt integrates us into their platform (I’m hinting at them now) :DDD
minimalist phone: creating folders
@gostroverhov Soon, you will be acquired :D
ProblemHunt
@busmark_w_nika If this happens, I’ll hook you up — I promise 😄 🤝
minimalist phone: creating folders
@gostroverhov Deal! :D
WebCurate.co
I think the most frustrating part is the marketing itself, since it takes time for the results to show up. In general, unlike what some newbies think, launching a startup is simple (which it indeed is), but generating ongoing revenue is not. For a startup to grow properly and enter a revenue-generating cycle, it takes a heck of a lot of patience and hard work.
ProblemHunt
@hosseinyazdi Hossein, I agree with you. Marketing is a really big problem right now that a startup has to overcome, especially without funding. But I think the most important thing at the beginning is to build what people really want. And then win marketing and everything else.
WebCurate.co
@gostroverhov 100% agree!
I really like how niches these problems are! Reinforces the idea that niching is the way to go in the beginning. Which one surprised you the most while writing this list?
ProblemHunt
@andreitudor14 Hi! Amazing observation, thanks for sharing it :)
To be honest, these problems haven’t surprised me much in recent months because I face different ones every day. BUT, I do have a personal favorite — it’s a problem I would really like to solve myself. It’s very painful, quite social, has a big market, and high willingness to pay:
https://problemhunt.pro/en/medicine-health/45u31o0b41-problem-of-managing-type-1-diabetes-with
ProblemHunt
Are you sure most existing solutions really solve someone’s problem well? 👀
👉 Discussion is here: https://www.producthunt.com/p/problemhunt/are-you-sure-most-existing-solutions-really-solve-someone-s-problem-well
The proposal one is interesting. There's different types of proposals. Financial, creative, etc... Both equally important. But the creative one is harder to get right.
We're trying to solve for that - but not so much from the proposal pov - but from an ideation pov.
ProblemHunt
@nikhilshahane Hi! That’s great — I wish you success! :)
@gostroverhov Ditto! :D