Good intention. I would work on your copy. Perhaps "request for solutions".
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#12This is great. It'd be very powerful if it existed for major industries or functions within a business (eg business intelligence, it, etc). People would pay to listen in. Almost like https://www.doximity.com/ for other businesses.
Explain please
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#13So I've seen this idea in different incarnations. My favourite was probably the one that scraped Twitter for people complaining about various things and had people rank those.
This seem like a decent attempt to actually make it viable though. Good luck!
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#14I'd say it is probably more like a Stack Exchange for problems than a Product Hunt for problems.
Browsing Product Hunt is too distracting for me because there are so many solutions to problems I'm not having, which inevitably get me off track of what I am trying to do.
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#15This is great. It'd be very powerful if it existed for major industries or functions within a business (eg business intelligence, it, etc). People would pay to listen in. Almost like https://www.doximity.com/ for other businesses.
Explain please
Imagine a community of business intelligence analysts, or a different community of data scientists, maybe another one of accountants, or a separate one of structural engineers. Each online community is invite-only, and you can talk about your trade, new/interesting solutions, and the problems you have with your software and tools. I think conferences and associates often fill this void for many industries, but it'd be cool to have a "realProblems" site that's focused.
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#16Also came up this idea two nights ago before falling asleep, and two days later someone did it! Looking forward to see how it evolves.
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#17So I've seen this idea in different incarnations. My favourite was probably the one that scraped Twitter for people complaining about various things and had people rank those. This seem like a decent attempt to actually make it viable though. Good luck!
Do you have a link for that? Sounds cool
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#18Cool idea. I especially agree with this problem: "It's hard for multiple developers to share one staging server". My company has two staging servers, but with a team of 6 devs, someone often has to wait. Does anybody know of any solutions to spin up/down staging servers in a cost-effective way?.
Partition them into VMs?
Alternately, I use vagrant-aws (https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws) to quickly do this on Amazon. Just be very careful to not check your keys into source control.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Imagine a community of business intelligence analysts, or a different community of data scientists, maybe another one of accountants, or a separate one of structural engineers. Each online community is invite-only, and you can talk about your trade, new/interesting solutions, and the problems you have with your software and tools. I think conferences and associates often fill this void for many industries, but it'd b…
I think this is a more viable (and beneficial to society) product than the generic RealProblemHunt site that is presented to us. The generic site is, in my opinion, vulnerable to the Dunning-Kruger Effect. A more focused tool like this could help professional communities prioritize problems within their field in a public way.
For example, a similar product for game developers might prioritize fixing game monetization. A "global" board like the one presented here would likely never prioritize such an idea.
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#20Cool idea. I especially agree with this problem: "It's hard for multiple developers to share one staging server". My company has two staging servers, but with a team of 6 devs, someone often has to wait. Does anybody know of any solutions to spin up/down staging servers in a cost-effective way?.
Hey Kcole, we are actually currently building product to solve this problem at Runnable, http://runnable.io. Email us at support@runnable.com and we will be happy to give you an invite. We would love to hear what you think