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What problems are you solving?

People love talking about ideas and solutions, but what about problems?

Maybe we can help others develop products focused a problem rather than just an idea.

For those who have a product up and running - what problem are you trying solve?

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    https://guesstheproduct.com - 10 second landing page feedback

    Problems:

    • user testing sites are focused on very detailed feedback or more design-related feedback
    • it is challenging to optimize the site to catch the attention of the visitors in 10-15 seconds
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      Wow, I like that you're able to dive in so fast, I immediately got hooked. And also the page is nice!

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      The user flow is amazing.

      • Getting started without signing up
      • Clear value proposition
      • Gamification
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        Thank you. Hope it will help more and more indie devs to create better landing pages.

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          I've seen a few products like this. This is the best implementation that I've seen. Already added strongstack.io 👍

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            Cool. Can you name some of those products? I'm curious.

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              Aside from fivesecondtest.com, the others were discovered on IH. Tried finding them but the searches were diluted by posts from the Landing Page Feedback group.

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      Amazing, I love your idea and the user flow is very easy.

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      This is pretty awesome. Love the idea and the take on analyzing the first 10-15 seconds of a users impression.

      One thing I would change (in my opinion) is the constant pop up every 10 seconds, asking if I can describe the page or if I need more time. Thought it got annoying pretty quickly, and instead, maybe just having a button that follows the screen, which allows us to describe the page is a better solution.

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        Thx. I agree that the popup is annoying 🙂 other people complained about it as well. I wanted to find a way to minimize the time the users spend watching a screenshot. But I'll rework this part for sure.

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      👏👏👏 great execution!

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    70% of people are unhappy at work, and 40% believe their current jobs are meaningless. Meanwhile so many moonshot ideas and startups with missions to save the world are virtually unknown and need all the help they can get.

    The Good Startup (thegoodstartup.com) is a starting point that spreads this awareness. We believe that you've been given too much in this lifetime to do anything less, so we're inspiring startup fans with our meaningful conversation and interviews. We'll see where we go from there..!

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    https://versoly.com/ - SaaS Focused landing page and website builder

    Problems:

    • Need to hire a dev to create a website
    • Need to hire a designer for it to look good
    • Serverless/static (faster and better for the environment)
    • Only have to buy 1 product instead of 5 (landing pages, blogs, forms, popups, analytics)
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      Do you have the functionality to provide a blog to the landing page?

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        Yeah, https://ant-polar-1575116083.versoly.com/blog not the best example :) haven't had time to swap the main site over.

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          It looks pretty neat! Is it available only for paid users?

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            Nope free users can try it, but will be limited to a certain amount of blog posts.

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      Same here with Pageam.com, Mobile App landing page builder.

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      Nice job. I'm starting a very similar project, so will be very interesting to see how things go. Did you identify people initially or just see the general problem?

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        I was the initial user, I had a problem creating a marketing site for my old SaaS.

        We have paying customers and are growing faster every month, so it's interesting times.

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    https://tinyurl.com/tafcph2
    Problem: people show up late to meetings
    Solution: whoever is late pays everyone who is on time a certain $/min

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    Problems using Indie Hackers on mobile (that Moon attempts to solve):

    • Page loads are slow
    • Scrolling is jumpy and unreliable for keeping your position in a feed
    • Hover elements don't display correctly and don't disappear after navigating away
    • Tapping a button or link often requires multiple taps in order to register
    • Some UI elements are too large for a small screen and some are too small to tap with a finger
    • Horizontally arranged menus require side-scrolling
    • Lack of native gestures like swiping, long-press and pull-to-refresh
    • Can't access IH directly from your iOS home screen and pick up exactly where you left off.
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    Trying to solve financial management issues for small businesses like overdue invoices, cash flow projections, delayed projects etc.

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    Someone told me it's hard to find if an open source issue has a PR or not. Now I'm building a browser extension idea we had and thinking about what else I can help with! :)

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    Problem:
    Somebody would like to develop a web site with

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      How does a customer edit the landing page?

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        As it's an application template user has all the code and can change it on his/her own.

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          Won't this run into the same problem that static site generators etc have, how will a marketer add a new landing page or edit old ones?

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            As the solution is an application template it's aimed at the people who can write basic HTML and CSS.

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              Interesting.

              Would a static solution like Gatsby be better?

              Why would they pay for hosting?

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    Problem:
    Somebody would like to create a SaaS app but out of ideas.

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    Problem:

    • Somebody would like to create a SaaS app but doesn't know how
    • People don't want to spend time building a dashboard, database models, project structure and integrating to payment (soon) and other APIs.
      Solution: SaaS boilerplate https://www.saasforge.dev
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    I am currently exploring the problem of unorganized scientific paper research. There are already products like Mendeley or Zotero, but these tools require you to add/sort/group entries manually.

    Additionally, it's hard to put multiple papers into a cohesive relationship regarding the citations or the topics, without spending some time reading them.

    I am thinking to solve this (hopefully real) problem by (for example) presenting the user with a structured overview over the papers he looked at by extracting them from the browser history.

    Any thoughts or feedback on this are highly welcome!

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    Everyone wants to be in shape. Very few people are.

    Working on an app/content to help with that.

    Working title is 'This App Will Give You Abs'

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    https://tability.io - Focus & Accountability for teams

    We help you keep in mind your North Star while you're busy working.

    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g8FTEHxzrs for the video)

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    https://strongstack.io/

    The problem: Losing potential customers to better value propositions.

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      Very cool idea 😎
      I like it a lot! Well done. 👍

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        Thanks for checking it out Shaun!

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      Very good idea and it is clear what it does. It monitors the sites of competitors. When a change happens, we know about it. It is indeed a real problem, my former company lost important deals because the competitors came up with smth new and we figure them out too late. We used e2e testing tool to make screenshots of the competitors' sites and notify us when 8% changed on any of the sites 🙂

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        Thanks for the feedback Andras. That's a great story. And the first time I heard about a company making their own solution.

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    With the advent of SEO, pricing a used item is difficult because a lot of garbage data is returned with search results. E-commerce sellers don't want to do quick mental math in their heads and I don't blame them. That's the problem I am trying to solve.

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    Voize.me solves mainly the following problems:

    • never-ending registering on sites you want to comment on
    • comment censorship

    Using a single account, you can now comment on any video, song, blog post or news article without restrictions.

    Other problems it solves:

    • disabled comment sections
    • comment scattershoting (e.g. having to share or re-publish the content somewhere else in order to comment on it)
    • spam in comment sections
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      This comment was deleted 3 months ago.

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    I'm trying to solve people's financial freedom problem. People are becoming less productive by working in a job which they don't feel related. My project is about teaching how to make money online, so that they can have financial freedom and they can be more productive by doing any job or work which they feel related.

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    You build your great Idea, a SaaS, Startup, MVP and now users could flock to your product. But unfortunately you got many users who try to abuse your system or misuse your offering. Anonymous user coming over proxys, disposable emails aso.

    Now our Product, https://monapi.io , it is an IP & Email Data Intelligence API, come into play. Implement our API into your signup process to get rid of unwanted users. This is one example of many how one could ouse our data.

    I think it is really important to try to think like your customer and about the problem he has, not about your solution. This is easier said as done :-)

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    Good idea. I think this helps refine your own vision for your product as well.

    Flowist.io

    When people go remote they lose a couple things:

    • Clarity on who is doing what, and the status of their team members
    • Community around team goals and accomplishments
    • Visibility and recognition for their work or their teamates work

    A lot of remote teams struggle with this. And daily standups' are a band-aid on a larger issue. I think flowist.io is headed in the right direction to solve these.

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