How did you come up with the idea for your product?

Namrata Arya
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I'll go first: We saw an insanely high number of people looking for 'business name generator' and 'brand name ideas' on search. We found this data on the Google Keyword Planner. However, there were hardly any good business name generators that suggested names that were meaningful and actually usable. We started digging in deeper and discovered that the name selection process doesn't end at finding a good name - the name needs to have a corresponding domain available, needs to not have an existing trademark in the same category and it needs to have social usernames available. The entire process seemed SO complicated and cumbersome for the already time strapped makers. And this is how we ended up creating Namify AI, a business name generator that uses AI to suggest names that are highly tailored to your specific product. We also built in the functionality to show domain, trademark and username availability for each name. So something that would otherwise take hours if not days, should now take seconds. Would love to hear the story behind how you ended up with the idea to build your product!

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Vaibhav
For Selftalk.ing, the idea stemmed from the personal habit of talking and motivating myself about my goals. It keeps me accountable with personalized guidance.
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Vaibhav
@kilopolki That's so cool, Mark. I appreciate that!
Mark Lemuel M
@realdesigntack I got the same venture too! upskill! followed and upvoted all your creations!
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Namrata Arya
@realdesigntack Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing :)
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Vaibhav
@namrata_arya glad you liked it, namrata.
Wilfred Kasekende
As an avid gamer I was bored with modern UI/UX experiences and found them slow and underwhelming. I decided to invent my own UI/UX which is limitless and can scale to fit on any platform desktop, mobile, tablet and smartwatch. 3 years later, we're launching the Android app on PH on the 29th 🤣
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Namrata Arya
@wilfred_kasekende that’s awesome! Sounds really great and would love to check it out
Namrata Arya
@wilfred_kasekende have followed your coming soon page 🙌
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Vítor Soares
@wilfred_kasekende cool. I just followed your coming soon page!
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mjkabir
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Namrata Arya
@shownotes these are all amazing ideas! I think a lot of startups have similar origins - a problem they personally faced that needed solving
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mjkabir
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Vítor Soares
I and Joao Pereira developed AskCory.ai to empower startups to leverage the Bullseye Framework, a powerful customer acquisition tool we've been using internally at Build Up Labs since 2021. AskCory.ai guides you through a series of questions to understand your business goals and target audience. Based on your answers, it delivers validated marketing tactics designed to help you achieve success. Through user discovery interviews using the Jobs To Be Done approach, we realized AskCory.ai could fulfill the needs of a wider audience, including freelancers and marketing agencies managing multiple client accounts.
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Namrata Arya
@vitor_pvsoares love the idea of user discovery interviews! Thanks for sharing this :)
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Gurkaran Singh
It all started when we realized there were more people searching for good business names than there are dog videos on the internet! Well, almost. But seriously, the struggle of finding a perfect name that isn't already taken is as challenging as debugging code at 3 am!
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JD Worcester
We noticed the simple problem that there's no way to measure videos on websites...
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Nikita
It took us weeks to come up with a name for something that can potentially change the world, the hard part really is to come up with a name. I would have been interested to try out Namify at that time. Good job!
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Namrata Arya
@kitanirjv that’s so encouraging to hear! Thank you for the kind words :) we are hoping we are able to help other makers in a similar fashion 🙌
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Denis Angilella
Thanks for sharing your context @namrata_arya ! Here is the story behind Famxplor: After the pandemic, we decided to travel and spend time with our kids Like most parents we are busy😅 so I started collecting blog posts of families who travel with their children instead of using generic sites It saved us a lot of time for finding activities with our kids and led to some of our best family experiences
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Namrata Arya
@denis_angilella this is such a cool concept and love the story behind it :)
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