u/Routine_Charge8497

Lately I’ve realized the most interesting part of startups isn’t the product itself — it’s the problem behind it.

Some people are solving things they personally struggled with for years.
Some are fixing tiny annoying workflows nobody talks about.
Some are rebuilding industries because they got tired of how broken things feel.

Honestly, I find those stories more interesting than funding announcements or growth screenshots.

So I’d love to ask:

What are you building right now, and what made you start working on it?

Not just the product —
the actual frustration, moment, or experience behind it.

I’m thinking about writing a few founder/blog features around interesting problems people are trying to solve, especially smaller indie projects that usually don’t get much attention.

Would genuinely love to read what people here are working on.

I spend a lot of time discovering random indie projects online, and honestly some of the best products have almost zero visibility.

Meanwhile low-effort AI wrappers somehow dominate every feed.

So I wanted to ask:

What’s the most underrated side project you’ve built recently?

Could be:

• SaaS
• AI tools
• developer utilities
• automation
• niche websites
• productivity apps
• weird internet experiments

Share:

• what it does
• what stack you used
• biggest lesson so far

I’ll start:

I’ve been building tools focused on utility-first products instead of engagement-first products.

One recent project:

https://www.splitmates.in/

profitai.in

https://lib.profitai.in/

and many more

It’s a minimal shared expense platform with realtime group chat, smart debt simplification, and no ads/social feed.

Curious to see what everyone else is building.

made a subreddit called r/uselesstalk

it’s basically for:

•	random thoughts

•	weird observations

•	pointless conversations

Every trip or roommate setup somehow ends the same way:

• random UPI screenshots
• “bro send split”
• confusion over who paid
• endless WhatsApp messages

So we built SplitMates.

A shared expense app focused on pure utility:

• realtime group chat
• instant expense splitting
• smart debt simplification
• group budgets
• fast expense search

The biggest thing we hated with existing apps was context switching.

You track expenses in one app…
then discuss everything in WhatsApp.

We wanted both in one place:
conversation + financial clarity.

Also:

• no ads
• no social feed
• no selling user data

Just a fast, minimal tool for modern groups.

Would love honest feedback from people managing roommates, trips, startup teams, or couple finances.

https://preview.redd.it/1rucnax0kh1h1.png?width=1789&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb5d403bc4af7f61f9632059406c39cfd1601367

https://preview.redd.it/1qg93ax0kh1h1.png?width=1075&format=png&auto=webp&s=cbf1b2ef468181281761cdc0016a50112df0b2ca

https://www.splitmates.in/