u/tobitr0n11

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Looking for feedback. I'm building a marketplace for Executive Education. You fancy?

My company provides an annual education budget that is "use it or lose it." You have to submit your certificate of completion by EOB on the last day of the period, or the cost is deducted from next year's budget.

One year, I had a bit of budget left and started searching business school catalogs for options. It was such a tedious process that I actually gave up, and the money went to waste.

This made me wonder how others handle this, and it reminded me of marketplaces like Booking or Airbnb.

So, I started a side project to unify business school catalogs into a single marketplace, allowing people to easily search, filter, and compare programs.

I'd love your honest feedback on it and whether what I'm building makes sense.

I've been working on this for 5 months and am already gaining some traction on Google. This isn't just a weekend project; I'm taking it seriously.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share the link directly in the post, so I will add it later in the comments if permitted!

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u/tobitr0n11 — 6 days ago

I built a QR code wallpaper for your phone’s lock screen — then nearly killed it with bad positioning

Picture this: you're at a conference, you just had a great conversation, and now comes the awkward part. You both pull out your phones. Someone opens LinkedIn. Someone misspells a name. A phone gets handed across. Eventually you're connected but the moment is already gone.

That's the problem I wanted to solve.

qrlock.app turns any URL into a wallpaper with your QR code baked right into it. Set it as your lock screen. Next time someone wants to connect, you just press the power button and hold up your phone. They scan, done. No app to open,
no link to find, no fumbling.

Works for anything: LinkedIn, Calendly, GitHub, a
portfolio, even a Calendly link you want one tap away. The lock screen becomes your business card, permanently in your pocket.

The embarrassing part: I launched it framing it as a
"LinkedIn QR generator." People came, saw "another QR tool," and left. Two people pushed back hard enough that I rewrote the entire hero, added multi-platform support, and dropped the LinkedIn framing. Classic trap: sharp use case works for ads, kills you as a product narrative when the product is broader.

Mobile only. Free. No signup. iPhone-focused right now.

→ qrlock.app

Genuinely curious: does the lock screen angle land, or does it still read like "just another QR generator"?

u/tobitr0n11 — 7 days ago

I can’t stop thinking about problems and solutions. How do you stay focused?

I actively started using Reddit just recently and I’m addicted. The purpose was to generate ideas from posts and validate own ideas and now I’m overwhelmed by it.

I have corporate Tech Product and Consulting background and probably very close minded currently because I’ve seen many things.

I generously have ideas take notes and later research them and quickly get grounded because google is already full by solutions that solve the problems I had in mind or found interesting. But quickly I follow the „not worth it“ path without proper validation.

Corporate life should provide my base income but in my freetime I want to generate additional income streams to retire early and focus on family and life.

How do you cope with the massive amount of valuable information from Reddit?

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u/tobitr0n11 — 7 days ago

Got Bug Bounty DMs - is it Spam?

Got a DM from a person who wants to share a vulnerability he found on my project. Is this a typical scammer approach?

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u/tobitr0n11 — 8 days ago
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How do you find the next relevant Executive Education?

Im overwhelmed by all business schools offering their courses. How do you approach this? I’m not looking for MBA or Masters more like particular courses for certain areas of interest but on academic level.

Do you go from page to page and check their catalogues?

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u/tobitr0n11 — 8 days ago

Looking for some Go-To-Market advices

Built a niche marketplace for executive education over the past months with content and fully SEO optimized. Already gaining traction on google but looking for some best practices when it comes to sharing it officially on the internet.

Of course product hunt is always a great place to post it but what other platforms do you recommend to make it public for the sake of gathering feedback? I‘m also doing some LinkedIn post sharing my journey but resonance isn’t huge and currently not the right place for feedback.

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u/tobitr0n11 — 8 days ago