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Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
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Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#32One thing I would find really useful is a web tool that can scrape/ filter/ list events. E.g. in most cities, it is impossible to get a simple listing of all screenings of films in cinemas, let alone filter them by location/time/... or mash them up with tools tracking your own taste. Same for concerts, theatre, art exhibitions, ...
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#33Pick one your ideas. Start meeting people who are already working on something similar. Start meeting potential customers. Just talking to people in the same space and potential clients will change your idea or help it grow. Then start working on it. Build anything. Don’t try to be perfect in version 1. But plan for long term perfection instead over multiple iterations. Be proud of what you create. Whatever that may be
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#34Speaking as an anthropologist: go into the field. I bet very few great ideas came from behind a desk. Ask people with jobs you don’t know much about simple questions that are not directly aimed at finding out what you can sell them. Be genuinely interested in their day. “What do you do first when you get to work?”, “Do you dress a certain way?”, “Do you eat with co-workers or alone?”, “Do you like to go outside durin…
> Ask people with jobs you don’t know much about simple questions that are not directly aimed at finding out what you can sell them.
I'd advise against this. Good product ideas usually come from a deep, subtle understanding of the problem domain, not by searching for new problems in markets you don't know anything about.
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#35One thing I would find really useful is a web tool that can scrape/ filter/ list events. E.g. in most cities, it is impossible to get a simple listing of all screenings of films in cinemas, let alone filter them by location/time/... or mash them up with tools tracking your own taste. Same for concerts, theatre, art exhibitions, ...
The hard thing about this is fragmentation. Building a web scraper for events means extracting information from a wide variety of non-standard websites. Even Eventbrite aggregates events manually, I think.
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#361.- If you are in the right mindset, ideas will come effortlessly. Read articles, work with cutting-edge programming languages (even for toy projects), be involved with communities. 2.- There are no blatant problems awaiting for a solution anymore (it's 2018!). Successful startups have to provide an original, excellently-executed approach to old problems. 3.- You have huge competition; be aware of that. A whole gener…
> There are no blatant problems awaiting for a solution anymore (it's 2018!).
This is unlikely to be true. It's at least as untrue as it was in any previous year. Good ideas are only blatantly obvious in hindsight.
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
You asked the wrong question. You should only ask how do they work, and think yourself about the solution. They are business, not software developers.
Respectfully, I hear this advice for sales all the time, and it sounds silly unless you've already built a relationship. If someone cold-calls me and starts asking open-ended questions, they're wasting my time.
This isn't sales. It's market research. Your point stands, though. It's actually harder to get market research meetings than sales meetings, because you have nothing to offer. You have to go through your network, or meet people obliquely through interest groups.
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#38What problems have you had in your own life? Surely there's an opportunity there that at least deserves further market research.
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#39A few Ideas I want someone to work on: - Code/Product Documentation SaaS tool for early stage tech companies (very few good products, one is ReadMe.io) - An ad network for progressive web apps (PWA have good future and as of now there is no exclusive ad network for them) - CRM kind of SaaS app for startup founders (where founders can manage all their relationship, communication and contacts like investors, journalist…
What is ReadMe.io missing that you'd like to see?
Re: Ask HN: It’s 2018, what to build now?
#401.- If you are in the right mindset, ideas will come effortlessly. Read articles, work with cutting-edge programming languages (even for toy projects), be involved with communities. 2.- There are no blatant problems awaiting for a solution anymore (it's 2018!). Successful startups have to provide an original, excellently-executed approach to old problems. 3.- You have huge competition; be aware of that. A whole gener…
> There are no blatant problems awaiting for a solution anymore (it's 2018!). This is unlikely to be true. It's at least as untrue as it was in any previous year. Good ideas are only blatantly obvious in hindsight.
I disagree. Airbnb, Uber, Amazon and many others are extremely basic ideas that some person or another would have come up with sooner or later.
Basically it was a matter of being in the right place, right time, right knowledge (and execution, of course)
Winners took it all.