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

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Wow! I personally find it fantastic! Where is this data coming from? How do you get industry people to complain there?

A combination of reaching out to professionals on twitter and cold-emailing.

We were doing this for market research anyway, so we decided to throw our information in web app form.

I am worried about scaling though.

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

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It is a valuable app for people looking for startup ideas. It even validates a point that PG makes on one of his essays when he talks about how the current CRM is nothing more than a fancy to do list (not his exact words).

Thanks for sharing, I've bookmarked it.

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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.

Thanks for the comment Vivtek. Why do think this is brilliant? What would be useful from these tweet-like brainstorms?

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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 t…

"... pain point ..."

What is a pain point? Is it a problem? ... don't apologise I'm just looking at it like a n00b.

"... Any suggestions on how I can inform users what's going on without cluttering the page (pop-overs sounds like a good idea)? ..."

If users find it hard. A series of lo-tech screen caps showing a real example or a hi-tech video leading users through would do the job. Removal or explanation of any jargon. Seek feedback from actual users to get the best results.

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

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I think you are onto something here. However, for this to be more useful, you need to also ask which industry/position the user's in. "Distractions when working" is too general to develop a product. However, if you know this person is an "air traffic controller", then you can start thinking of a problem solution -- technical-oriented or not.

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

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I think you are onto something here. However, for this to be more useful, you need to also ask which industry/position the user's in. "Distractions when working" is too general to develop a product. However, if you know this person is an "air traffic controller", then you can start thinking of a problem solution -- technical-oriented or not.

We intended this to target commercial real estate agents, but you bring a good point in that by asking for a user's industry, the app can be applicable to almost any professional field.

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

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The idea is really solid. And the execution is good for a MVP. I agree with the previous posts, it needs some more explanation. I'm not sure you need to add anything, just edit whats there already.

I would try some other tag lines besides "why does your day suck" . I understand that your going for but I think its too abstract to get good solid ideas. I would try something like "what would make your life easier". That way the site is yielding useful info with every query.

Great start though! Excited to see where it goes.

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

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Also the idea of a simple voting system, as the site grows that would be really useful. And a comment for people working on it to say what they're building and how they're solving the problem would be cool.

This is a big component of what we'd like to build out. We see so many entrepreneurs building so many different services that often these industry professionals just don't know about them. Connecting the two parties is our primary goal.

I would be interested to know specifics on the 'voting system' you brought up as well as any other ideas you might have! Thanks for the feedback.

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