u/Feeling_Loss4384

I have built too many projects nobody actually needs. With inception like twist. (I will not promote).

Like almost every other software engineer I have built many side projects. None of them solved a real issue. I have stumbled across an author and podcaster talking about finding the audience first and then embedding myself into this community.

The idea is to find a real problems people actually have and solve that. Easier said then done!
However I have found a problem. The problem was still finding those problems :D

Reading subreddits, extracting possible signals, clustering them, labelling them, etc takes so much time, especially if you already have full time job and you are a newborn parent.

So I have started working on a tool that helps me do that automatically.

The inception part is that I am solving a problem for user (me) who has a problem finding problems to solve.

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u/Feeling_Loss4384 — 8 days ago

Ekipa, kako pronalazite izlete na koje idete i kako koordinirate s ljudima? U smislu, kamo se ide, kad se ide, tko ce ic, tko vozi itd?

u/Feeling_Loss4384 — 17 days ago
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Hi all!

I work as a software engineer for past 10 years and I have built countless mobile and web apps, chrome extensions even a game but none of that had a real users or solved an actual problem.

Recently I stumbled across Arvid Kahl and found out about this concept of "finding your audience first", embedding into community and looking into problems they face. I tried to do that, however I recently became a father and my extra time dropped dramatically so I tried to built myself a tool I can use to get to know a community and to easily find problems they face. Which resulted in the screenshot above.

My problem: I am not sure how to turn this into something useful beyond raw insights.

For those who have done problem-first saas:

  • What’s the next step after identifying patterns like this?
  • How do you validate which problems are worth solving?
u/Feeling_Loss4384 — 17 days ago