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What should I build next? Choosing between ideas

Hello everyone, I recently had some ideas for products and finally ended up with two that may be interesting (because I had those problems myself). But I wanted to have some feedback from founders to know what can be the better idea.

Let me present them:

The first idea is a community platform:

When I build a product, I sometimes create a discord community to get users' feedback or guide them. I built an online learning platform and created the community on discord but I faced some problems:

  • The engagement is really low and people are not really on the discord

  • It is hard to drive users from the website to the discord (and some people don't have a discord account)

  • And as we have different platform getting users feedback is more difficult, because you basically have to log into a different service.

  • And the knowledge base is everywhere. It is usually a blog to solve some issues and when people have problems they ask on discord. Some others have issues and answers on GitHub, and maybe on social media communities.

So I wanted to create an open-source community platform that can get integrated into any website. With functionalities like private channels, open channels, SEO friendly content for the website and a developer API so it can easily be integrated everywhere. And can also be integrated into your GitHub account to sync your issues

The second one is a headless multi-application blogging platform

For the second one, it Is a problem I still have right now. Most of the time I start a project and I want to quickly integrate a blog on it, comment sections and capture some emails of early adopters. So as I sometimes use different stacks, what I do is create a WordPress instance for each app I am working on and consume it as a rest API. In the end, I have multiple WordPress blogs to maintain, and I must integrate other tools to capture email for the early adopter, or maybe a newsletter.

So I wanted to create either a layer on top of WordPress or a completely separate application where :

  • I can create multiple applications (like website 1, and website 2) and I have them as slack workspaces so I have a central way to write, moderate, and manage my content and comments.
  • Integrate form and comments sections and API that can be easily embedded into external apps
  • And it can be easily integrated (with content synching) into existing platforms like webflow, medium or WordPress itself

As thhis seems more abstract I have done this quick landing page for that : http://rigel.ulife.cm/

Thanks.

I will be very glad to have your feedback 🙂

on May 9, 2022
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    I would say that's common with everyone and even I was on the same boat and was building Two saas at the same time and even launched them but my second one was not worthy so I dropped it and now fully focused on my other saas. It's my first SaaS and help founders/Indie hackers & solo builders to get the actual frustrations before building anything. Check my saas : buildfrompain and would love your honest feedbacks !!

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    Just curious, in your mind, is the headless blogging platform similar to https://dropinblog.com/ ?

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      Hello @k00k. Thanks for the link. It is at 50% like that. But the only problem. For multiples apps I need multiples account and multiple pricing with dropinblog. It is like setting up multiple headless wordpress. But I am looking for a central way to manage multiples blogs and sync them

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    Hey Itphen, I'm actually building your idea 1) : https://dupple.com

    We plan to make it open-source in the future! But as someone said here, it's actually difficult to convince people to switch to this platform as the basic expectations are quite high in terms of feature (SSO, custom domains...)

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      Yes, @Rifal. Thanks for the feedback. I am seeing it now when I am trying to evaluate the idea. I found this platform too https://circle.so/ doing something kind of similar. You may want to check it.

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        Yes I heard about Circle! The issues for me are 1) the price 2) the fact it's made for creators and not startups!

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    The problem with starting yet-another-community-platform is that you’re competing with free—Discord, Slack, etc. If you aren’t on a popular platform, users won’t bother to login and quite frankly the community will die before it can thrive.

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      @fromtheexchange thanks a lot for the feedback. 😊

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    Create figma slides with top 3 features for both, try to land 5 pre-sales, see which one sells easier -> build -> scale. Can help you with that, just DM me on Twitter.

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      Hello @Denis_Shatalin. Alright. Thanks

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    I'd go with the headless application, as it seems to be already a pain you have and not super complex to setup.

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      Hello @steven_harvel. Thanks a lot for your feedback 😊. I appreciate