Searching for ideas? (problems to solve)
I heard Courtland reference on the podcast there's general difficulty for a subset of the indie hacker community to come up with ideas to work on. If that's you or someone you know, give this a vote?
rational for asking
@csallen, I recently worked an Instagram page and in learning about social media stumbled on a business called Sprout***. I inquired about some of their more premium services and found they've built a data base (maybe?) that watches for conversations across the web. Would it be useful to indie hackers to have a way to listen for keywords that indicate a problem? (Maybe group by industry)
If we can inventory conversations where folks are "complaining" (catch being they're in actual pain vs trolling)...
Then, hackers looking for a new project could "surf" actual problems to solve already being discussed publicly.
** I'm new - tried to search ideas in the forums. Looks like MR is doing an online class on finding ideas. I also tried searching products but didn't find a match. I'd welcome references to other thread on this topic if I'm late to the party!
***Sprout: https://sproutsocial.com/
I think it's interesting, but it's a valuable exercise and an important skill to be able to go out into the world and proactively discover problems, or to do research into existing problems to find potential gaps. It just requires a lot of activation energy, and the path forward isn't clear, so most people avoid doing it.