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Re: Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

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Post by glup »

eastbayjake wrote: post #28

I went to the site expecting to find "real" problems in the vein of "I'm a single working mom and it's hard to help my son with his homework" or "I have to care for a sick relative but it's hard to get medical advice for small ailments", etc. Most of these just seem like problems in search of a narrowly-focused consumer internet product for upper-middle-class white people or other engineers. That might be a feature a…

My friends and I have a term, narp, for "Not a real problem" for exactly these cases. It can also be used a verb, you can say someone is narping when they are devoting time to solving non-real problems.

Sure these are problems, but they are limited to a very specific demographic in many cases. Let's not pretend that working on these is more meaningful than it actually is.

Re: Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

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Post by fiatjaf »

ArekDymalski wrote: post #29

As far as I remember the oldest attempt to create something like that was http://theinternetwishlist.com/ These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not enough contributing members. It's quite understandable - what is the incentive to post a problem? What is a chance that someone will solve it? When will it happen? How will I know about it? etc. All these factors result in a situation in which people r…

I've been thinking about the reverse kickstarter for years. It is an awesome idea, but it would also suffer from a lot of problems:

- Just like any "network": not enough contributing members.

- People would pay now or when the problem was solved? Are they going to guarantee payment for something without a certain date?

- Who would decide if the problem was solved or not?

Re: Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

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Post by bbcbasic »

eastbayjake wrote: post #28

I went to the site expecting to find "real" problems in the vein of "I'm a single working mom and it's hard to help my son with his homework" or "I have to care for a sick relative but it's hard to get medical advice for small ailments", etc. Most of these just seem like problems in search of a narrowly-focused consumer internet product for upper-middle-class white people or other engineers. That might be a feature a…

You really expected "I'm a single working mom and it's hard to help my son with his homework"? Like any start-up, real people join at a later stage once the company has millions of users.

Re: Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

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Post by johnkevinmbasco »

@all - Hi guys! Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions. It will really help us improve the site. We're still at a very early stage so we really have lots of things to fix and improve.

Be sure to visit the FAQ page to get an idea on what are the use cases of the site - http://realproblemhunt.com/faq

To improve the site we are planning to split the site into different categories or at least first focus in a specific community of people so the problems listed will be more relevant to the type of visitor. What are your thoughts about this?

Re: Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

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Post by johnkevinmbasco »

mfisher87 wrote: post #19
hackerews wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Great idea. Based on the feedback and suggestions we gathered, we're now planing to split the site into different categories or at least focus in a specific community of people first.

Re: Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

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Post by johnkevinmbasco »

ArekDymalski wrote: post #29

As far as I remember the oldest attempt to create something like that was http://theinternetwishlist.com/ These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not enough contributing members. It's quite understandable - what is the incentive to post a problem? What is a chance that someone will solve it? When will it happen? How will I know about it? etc. All these factors result in a situation in which people r…

Thank you so much for those valuable feedback and suggestion! It will really help us think of ideas on how to improve the site. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve

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Post by Toast_ »

johnkevinmbasco wrote: post #37

@all - Hi guys! Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions. It will really help us improve the site. We're still at a very early stage so we really have lots of things to fix and improve. Be sure to visit the FAQ page to get an idea on what are the use cases of the site - http://realproblemhunt.com/faq To improve the site we are planning to split the site into different categories or at least first focus in a spe…

did you make this using microscope?
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