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Show HN: A way for entrepreneurs to connect with business problems to work on

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Post by hansy »

http://repp.herokuapp.com

Originally, my partner and I built this app internally (just in the past few days) to find trends and commonalities in our customer development process in the commercial real estate industry. However, as we kept getting responses about pain points in these professionals' lives, we decided that this information would be really useful to any entrepreneur looking for problems to solve.

Right now the web app is super basic with no login or authentication. It's like a basic notepad.

Ultimately the question is, do you find this sort of information useful? If not, what would be useful?

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#5

Post by bootload »

14 points but nobody giving feedback? Here's some. It's not really apparent for first time users what is being shown here:

- Is it a stack of peoples input or a hierarchical list?

- Can items go up/down?

- Can you vote?

- Why are the buttons green?

- There's a number on them is that how many votes the item has?

Maybe a quick into paragraph explaining it's use? Maybe a series of mouse-over hints to tell users the mechanics.

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#6

Post by deepkut »

First impression from someone a bit tired on a Sunday night (sorry!), I don't quite understand what this is.

Second impression: How much will "Dealing with people" help anyone? I don't mean to sound like a cynic, and this could be valuable if you get the right "culture" on here, but I think you need more.

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#7

Post by Vivtek »

deepkut wrote: post #6

First impression from someone a bit tired on a Sunday night (sorry!), I don't quite understand what this is. Second impression: How much will "Dealing with people" help anyone? I don't mean to sound like a cynic, and this could be valuable if you get the right "culture" on here, but I think you need more.

Oh, come on, it's like a brainstorming session in tweet format (140 characters and everything). The idea is to take very little time from the complainer, and let him/her just say what's most irritating about his/her day. Make it as easy as a tweet and nobody has a problem saying what's on the top of their minds. I think it's brilliant.

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#8

Post by nostrademons »

Interesting. By far, the biggest problems seem to be "people".

I wonder if it follows that the best thing one could do to alleviate workplace suffering is to create an AI capable of running the economy and then entomb all people in the Matrix.

Re: Show HN: A way for entrepreneurs to connect with business problems to work on

#10

Post by hansy »

bootload wrote: post #5

14 points but nobody giving feedback? Here's some. It's not really apparent for first time users what is being shown here: - Is it a stack of peoples input or a hierarchical list? - Can items go up/down? - Can you vote? - Why are the buttons green? - There's a number on them is that how many votes the item has? Maybe a quick into paragraph explaining it's use? Maybe a series of mouse-over hints to tell users the mech…

All valid points.

- a stack of inputs ordered based on number of points

- items can go up and down (again based on number of points)

- anyone can vote (although technically the people with the pain point should vote)

- using twitter bootstrap (because I can't design) and one of the buttons you can use is green

- yes the number on the green buttons is votes

I apologize for any confusion in features. I wanted to keep this as minimalist as possible so the industry professionals don't think they are overwhelmed with information. I can see how this can be confusing. I tried putting some of the information in the uservoice widget, but that's probably not the best place to do so. Any suggestions on how I can inform users what's going on without cluttering the page (pop-overs sounds like a good idea)?

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