Seeking feedback for my idea
Hello everybody. I have an idea for a solution to a problem I have always faced. Would love to hear your feedback. Here goes the problem.
I am a constant learner and my learnings are heavily internet-based. If I need to seek answer, I Google the question. If I want to understand a concept, I Google. The challenge I have always faced is asking the right questions and all the possible relevant questions around a topic. For example, I recently started learning about product management and felt that online courses are not enough and they provide very little information. So I had to refer to several websites to gather holistic understanding. Example, an online course taught me what an MVP is, but understanding just that isn’t enough. As a learner, I can learn more about MVP if I ask the right questions, like, How to build an MVP, tools for MVP, examples of MVP, prioritising features for MVP, etc. There are thousands of questions around MVPs that help understand the concept in depth. Google just provides ‘related searches’ but is still not enough.
I was contemplating a solution to this problem in a way that when a user types a word into the search bar, example MVP, the solution will crawl the internet and list down all the related questions people have asked related to an MVP. And then for each of these questions, it will further list down all the resources found on the internet that address that question, be it a blog, a YouTube video, etc.
Imagine if children could use such a solution to expand their understanding about things holistically.
Any feedback would be deeply appreciated. Thanks.
I currently use an app frase.io and one of its features lets you do something similar. Overall, I think it's a fairly good idea but not sure how the general public would perceive it.
What would your business model be though? Assuming you would sort of want to monetize and all.
I think I didn’t elaborate the problem statement well. Let’s say I Google ‘what is product market fit’ and Google shows all the links that answer this question. Okay, so now I know what is product market fit. Then few days later I come across a post that talks about ‘how to achieve product market fit’ and in my head I am like ‘why didn’t it occur to me to also learn about this when I Googled about pmf?’. So, you see, there can be thousands of amazing questions around product market fit that never occurred to me. Had they come to me naturally, I would simply Google and get a wider and deeper understanding around product market fit. But it only when I come across such queries do I realise about the importance of thinking critical and coming up with good questions around a certain topic to understand it deeply and holistically.
Have I elaborated it well now? Was this your previous understanding of my problem statement?
I like the idea. May be tough to decide which related searches to do. Might be why Google gives you options to choose from on their search results... but even those related searches were chosen for one reason or another.
To keep it simple, the whole idea is to suggest all the possible questions around a search that are most relevant. I don’t find Google’s ‘related search’ feature useful. You type something and Google shows all the answers to that question. Because of human mind and it’s limitation, we often struggle to bring the right questions. This is the problem I was proposing to solve.
What do you think?😊
For the most part, I'm good at asking Google the right question, but sometimes I don't know how to word it. I've gotten better over time.