Where and how did you come up with the idea of your startup?

Was trying to solve my problem of not having an excellent and vast social media presence, which was hindering my growth efforts significantly. Built a SaaS (GrindZero Social) that would help me and others create and follow a system to achieve all the important tasks that need to be done on a regular basis.

As a startup, we use Macbook + speakerphone + type-C usb hub for meetings (Zoom, teams) every day. And sometimes we work from home with these devices too. So we wanted to build one integrated device for Macbook. That's HiDock: https://www.producthunt.com/upco...

I got the idea based on my day to day work 👇 Managing window mgmt on my macOS was one of the day-to-day difficulties I used to face as a Product Manager. My usual day involves working with several teams on various things, therefore my workspace is a disaster, & I am constantly fighting myself to order those windows. That's when I was tinkering around the idea what if there was a 1-click way to organize the windows based on any situation I am in. Spaces for macOS - It's time to reclaim your workspace on macOS. https://bit.ly/3yMmz2F

The most number of ideas originate when we see gaps in the market and the pain points that we feel while using a service. How to bring your idea to life is a completely different question.

I made rate.house because there wasn't a platform where I can track and rate music, movies, TV, books, games, and podcasts all in one place. I made WordHoot because I liked Wordle but wanted to play it repeatedly and against friends. I made newsasfacts.com because I wanted to catch up with important world events in under a minute from trustworthy sources. Essentially, they're all conceived from the question "does this thing I want exist?" and the answer being no.

After hosting a podcast called The Idealists (https://theidealists.co), we realized how engaging audio is. We asked: Are companies creating podcasts internally to engage and connect their employees? Long story short: Yes, they do. But they mentioned how messy it is to share episodes with their employees. That's why we started building Pager (https://pager.fm), a private podcast platform for teams — making podcasting for work a piece of cake. 🎙

Ideas are easy, they come in 1$ per kilo:) What to do with the idea is a bigger question IMHO:) To turn an idea into a startup the minimum requirement is to take it through the idea validation funnel; and the funnel depends on your starting point: connections, SM audience, specifics of your idea, etc...

I guess it's the easiest to work in an area where you're facing and understanding the problem yourself. So I came up with a tool to generate code for Spring Boot developers.

My idea came by accident. I was looking at building social proof tools to help conversion rate in B2B, for content downloads. But the more I spoke to users, it was clear that understanding and measuring content performance was a bigger issue - so I focused harder on collecting user feedback on content, and analytics to support content measurement. Been a ride - but talking with users early, showed me 'my' version of the product wasn't what they wanted :)

Well, I am a developer and I would love to meet and collaborate with other developers. It's easy in fast-paced environments like silicon valley or other tech hubs but well, I don't live in one and neither do most other developers. So, instead of the subpar experience of lurking in random tech groups online, I decided to solve this by building a virtual hacker house, in broader terms. In other words- A platform to meet other devs 1:1 and team up on projects+hackathons seamlessly. https://connectdome.com Got around 500 interested developers so far. Feel free to request an invite if you're a dev :)

For over 10 years a family member never questioned their electricity provider about the rate they were paying. Turns out they had been upgraded to the most expensive plan after starting on a discounted plan for 'new customers' all those years ago. So they paid thousands of dollars more for electricity. This is called the 'loyalty tax' and is what happens when consumers don't have the motivation or confidence to shop around when a service contract/plan is expiring. Most stay with the existing provider. That's why we created the GetReminded app for iOS and Android. Consumers enter the expiry date and the app sends alerts so people get time and motivation to check the market. In-app contextual ads enable people to shop around easily and quickly.

Before the pandemic i've always worked in an environment that would now be described as a "hybrid model". It was always difficult to know who would be in the office and if there would be anywhere to sit. As it quickly became apparent that this would be the norm I decided to build a digital Whereabouts board that we had in previous jobs (though it was on a whiteboard). From that inital idea we added several other features as enough customers requested them and that's how https://team-today.com has become what it is now.

Sounds like a really cool product. I can relate - I'm completely hopeless at both online and real-life shopping, still spend a lot of time doing it 😅 When it comes to my own idea; I love remote work, I think it's an absolute life upgrade, but I miss bouncing ideas, thinking out loud, and casually connecting with my coworkers. Realized that I always started conversations by asking if people were available if I could disturb them, and checking their calendars(which is wayyy too tedious that I wouldn't do it too often). Whereas in an office, I would just look around and talk to whoever was free/not focused. So right now I'm working on a really simple tool making availability more visible for my team, as well as other hybrid product teams.

For https://tolt.io we came up with the idea after we were looking to set up affiliate marketing for one of our other projects, but couldn't find a free and affordable solution. Every solution we could find was expensive for us.

We realized that marketers are always overwhelmed, trying to get leads everywhere. And still, most B2B businesses don’t convert more than 2% of their website visitors. Stacking Google Analytics + a form plugin + an emailing software doesn’t answer the problem: it’s complicated to know what leads are doing, how they came, and what marketing campaign worked. Lots of products exist, but they either cost a lot of money or need hard work and custom integrations to get the big picture about lead acquisition. That’s why we’ve created Plezi One : a freemium tool to analyze your website performance and make the most of your content strategy : leverage your website to increase conversion rate and get valuable information about your leads. PS : Today is the big launch day ! We are third 🚀 If you want to support us, it would be very appreciated !

The idea must be sought in the pains and needs of the people around, no matter how trite it may sound. I watched my girlfriend, how much time and money she spends on visiting a beautician, she was very annoyed (so my friends and I decided to help her somehow) we made a prototype with augmented reality on Instagram, tested it, received more than 100 profiles with positive reviews. It became clear that this could work) So we founded forYou - a beautician in your smartphone

I like to say that I didn't found my startup, my startup found me. I am my own consumer. I was looking to lead a more sustainable lifestyle and found how hard it was to find reliably sustainable products online. That's how askBelynda came to be. I launched on PH today, check it out! https://www.producthunt.com/post...

I am a data guy especially the location and behavioural analytics. I have been working on the topic for the past 17 years and have seen all issues in and out. Many recurring and expensive, so we built a (location) data analytics for mobile phones and IoT devices that scale and focus on privacy - making it simpler and affordable for our customers

Mine was when my daughter came back from school one day after the Ukraine war had just started and said "I wish someone would just punch Putin!". That's what started my journey for creating PunchToons.com!

I know from my personal experience that a proper analysis is playing a huge role in development. That is why https://agilie.com/blog/waterfal... agile discovery phase is a good way if you want to refer professionals, who will develop your ideas and to make it work on you.