I have a graveyard full of ideas I've never built. Not because I stopped caring — but because nothing ever moves them forward after I write them down. Anyone else stuck in that loop? And would you anyone actually pay for a solution if it helped you follow through and build them?
I’ve been thinking a lot about how many startup or product ideas I have throughout the day—when I’m driving, at work, or just before bed. I jot them down in Apple Notes or a random document, and then I never see them again. Over time, these ideas just fade because there’s no structure to keep them alive.
I’d love to hear from others—do you struggle with this too? How do you keep your ideas from getting lost?
Been teaching myself SwiftUI + AI-assisted coding over the last few weeks and wanted to share the first app I’m seriously building.
It’s called Ideate.
The idea came from something I kept struggling with personally:
I’d constantly have startup or product ideas during the day, dump them into Notes, and then never look at them again.
Everything about generic notes apps feels like admin instead of momentum.
So I started building an app specifically for aspiring founders — people with a 9-5 job and 10 ideas in their head at all times.
The goal is simple:
Capture one idea every day and build the “founder muscle.”
A few things built so far:
I’m not a developer by background — I work in product/payments — so a lot of this has been learning through ChatGPT, Claude, debugging, and trial/error.
Would genuinely love feedback:
Happy to share more progress as I keep building.