Brutally honest feedback on these ideas
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Pain: My wife has terribly cold feet at night. Using a heating pad works sometimes, but it's also annoying for her to use. So.. she resorts to touching my legs with her glacier feet to heat them up. I hate this.
Solution: At first I thought about creating some insulated socks with a thin layer of rice, but if that sock ripped, it would be a huge pain to clean up, and product destroyed.. so What about creating socks that you put on right before you climb in bed that are made of that gel material? You heat them up in the microwave, slip em on, she's warm, I'm not turned into an icicle.. everyone wins! -
Pain: I'm ordering fast food. They hand me the bag, I drive away. It's the wrong meal. They mixed up the order.
Solution: I need to communicate to this specific location that they messed up my order, so they can have better customer service, or improve their process for delivering food. Why don't I create a SaaS that puts QR codes on their bags. Users can scan that QR code and leave a positive or constructive review. This way I could tell them why I don't want to go back because they've repeatedly messed up my order. -
Pain: I'm a user experience designer (mobile apps, desktop apps, websites.. etc). One thing that I look for is to see where people tap on the screen, or click on the website.. there's a web company (I believe called Hotjar), that will tell you where your users click, but I don't know of one that exists for mobile apps.
Solution: a SaaS that records where your users click so you can improve your designs for your software company. -
Pain: Matching socks is annoying, and in my mind there's a cultural level of acceptance where I feel obligated to match.. but when I don't people point it out and then they say that I'm funny, quirky, creative, silly, not acting my age (I have been told all these before).
Solution: Why not sell socks that don't match. Designer socks that purposefully don't match so you don't have to spend the time matching your socks and embrace spontaneity and take a step towards not caring what people think or say about you.
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Please be brutally honest. I would much appreciate it!
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Your wife might have an Iodine deficiency if she has cold hands/feet. These areas are going to be colder than the other parts of the body, since they are the "endpoints" but you may want to research the possibility of iodine deficiency. Most people don't get enough Iodine through their diets.
Pain 4 : To solve this problem I would buy only 2 colour socks with no design on it - Black and Brown
Then I just have to choose a colour of the day and pick any 2 socks of that color.
That's it problem solved
That's not a bad idea. So there's an element of spontaneity but also an ability to match.
About the 3rd point. Here is a list of heat map tools for mobile.
https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-mobile-app-analytic-tools-that-offer-heat-maps-for-iOS-an-Android-Applications
You need to create iOS and Android SDKs which are easier to integrate than the current solutions. If you can do it, it worth to try to build it.
Point 1,2 and 4 are not really interesting ideas, at least for me.
I'd say keep looking for other problems.
Thanks. I'll keep exploring. Looks like there are plenty of heat map software tools out there. Thanks for sharing.
1.We haven't tried an electric blanket.. I should try that.
2. The benefit I could see for the food chain is specific reviews tied to specific food orders. They would have data on every single order that came in because the QR code the customer scans is tied to the specific meal that the franchise prepared and sold. They would be able to know who was working at that time, and who prepared the meals. An example where I think this would be nice is, there's a lot of negative reviews coming in during a specific time then you can look back and see that so-and-so was just throwing food together and doing it really poorly so they can train that person better or let him go or have him do something else... it seems like it would improve the quality of their performance by making everyone way more accountable. What do you think?
None of these seem like a good use of your time. I'd keep searching.
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I'll check out the socks!
Even a few android phones now come with QR code readers. (Pixels for sure. I'm not sure about the other phones). And true, if they're upset enough, they do call and complain or leave a review on Yelp / Google. I was just curious to see if you scanned a fast food bag, and were able to leave a review on that specific food item that they sold. Like perhaps they have a system where they tie each order to a specific number and scan that with this same QR code, and then when I left a review with my QR code, they would know exactly what the meal was, when it was bought, and how prepared it and handed to the customer. It seems like that information would be valuable to the franchise so they can have better accountability among the employees.. maybe not though? I've never worked at a fast food franchise / restaurant.
So you don't care to match your socks, and you also don't wear pattern / designed socks. Thanks for the feedback!
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Yeah those are good points. Thanks for the feedback-that is a lot of costs to consider.
I'll consider trying that too. I'm trying to validate a number of different ideas at the moment, this being one of them.
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Yeah! I think the most convenient way would be for them to order their fast food bags specifically from this "QR code review company" so they don't have to do any extra work setting it up. They would simply pay us to handle order to go reviews to see how well the food prep is being handled, the experience talking to the window person, how the food was.. etc.
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