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Where and how did you come up with the idea of your startup?
I am far from a shopaholic, but recently I realised that I spend too many hours on online shopping in order to buy ordinary casual clothes.
So, I decided to create a smart shopping assistant which helps to buy branded clothes cheaply and save time.
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@tim_nicholas ha-ha! I also don't know my tariff plan of electricity. But I use a standard iPhone app to remind me of something.
@mironshe of course a standard phone app can 'remind' you. So we built additional functionality that phone apps don't have: ie dual app & email notifications; expense & budgeting calculator; multiple alerts so you don't swipe away and forget; and in-app shopping links to make it easy to start shopping around. š
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
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...
@katyaveremeichik I agree with you. The idea is really free $. My question was, under what situation did this happen? What kind of pain did you see in the market?
@mironshe in our case the clients were requesting one thing over and over, and we decided to make it) the pain was the complexity of excisting approval solutions. For just one small feature - like exporting a .csv r an .xlxs of access approval history fro complience - they had to purchace heavy expensive software they have no other use for
We realized that marketers are always overwhelmed, trying to get leads everywhere. And still, most B2B businesses donāt convert more than 2% of their website visitors.
Stacking Google Analytics + a form plugin + an emailing software doesnāt answer the problem: itās 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.
Thatās why weāve 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 š If you want to support us, it would be very appreciated !
@marie_nodet I can't understand why GA doesn't solve the problem above?
and I definitely want to be your client!
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
@mironshe current focus is on the apps where location is not the main business, but secondary. Travel and delivery mainly
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.
@sunilkhedar84 if the market really has a pain or a problem, then there will definitely be a solution
@mironshe Solutions are not always there. Covid has shown us how people came up with new solutions to fulfil the changed market conditions.
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 š
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.
@ebbacronqvist I really wondered what you were doing. Let me know when you are done with the product, I will your beta tester =))
My wife is a news anchor and was creating :60 video tributes for each of the first NYC Covid victims. We were in quarantine and I had a front row seat to the entire process. Hearing the pain that each person she interviewed was facing served as not only inspiration, but also a reminder of the pain I personally went through after facing losses. It sent me down a rabbit hole of research and testing until Chptr was born.
@rehan_choudhry1 unfortunately, not all products come from something good.
What does your product do? Why is it needed?
Great idea, But startup ideas must be like that they help in solving people's daily needs.
@mironshe It's a great idea, but if there are already big competitors in the market, you should have excellent planning and be unique and exciting.
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...
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 ā making podcasting for work a piece of cake. š
@mironshe Hi, thanks for being curious! Podcasts bring a new spin to internal communications: hearing directly (and therefore in a more authentic way) from leadership, peers, and teammatesā¦ without sitting in front of a screen. Employees can listen whenever it suits them!
@andre_dike we have launched an upcoming product and will officially show the product to the community in a couple of weeks https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
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.
@mironshe i was on the beach one day thinking about everyone i had lost in my life and really how little i knew and i had from them from family and friends
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 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.
I wish I had a better answer, but mine came up from a need to monetize my skills + my need to manage ADHD.
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