Hey everyone, I’m working on an entrepreneurship/product design project and trying to identify real everyday problems people face.

If you could have one product that doesn’t currently exist (or isn’t done well enough) that would genuinely make your daily life much easier, what would it be?

It can be anything—something practical, tech-related, household, student/work related, travel-related, literally anything.

I’m especially interested in problems that make you think “Why hasn’t someone made a good solution for this already?”

Would love to hear your ideas :)

Here's the pitch: you brief an AI agent before a meeting, it joins the call as a bot, participates in the chat, and sends you a full debrief after.

I built this as a mockup to see if people actually want it before I go deeper. Some of it works, some of it is rough around the edges.

What works right now:

- Give it context (who you are, why the meeting matters), key points you want raised, and questions you need answered

- It joins Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams as a named bot ("John (Imposter)")

- Posts a welcome message introducing itself and your agenda

- Actively participates in chat : answers if someone asks it something directly, confirms when your questions get answered, raises your key points when the topic comes up

- Sends a debrief at the end: summary, action items, and direct answers to your questions

- You can send it immediately or schedule it for a specific time

Quick way to test it:

Create a Google Meet (or Zoom/Teams), paste the link in, fill in some context and questions, and hit send. If you don't set a schedule it joins immediately — you'll just need to admit it from the waiting room. Takes about 30 seconds to set up. Talk for a few minutes and see what it picks up.

What I want to build next (if people use it):

- The bot uses voice to speak in the call.

- Google Calendar integration so it auto-joins without you doing anything

- Upload documents/briefs so the agent has richer context

- Claude workspace / Teams integration

- Better proactive participation

Try it: https://imposter-silk.vercel.app , you get one free meeting, no credit card.

Is this something worth pursuing or nah ?

App developer here,

So basically, after sign up the app asks about your hobbies and interests, then it puts you into a group of 4-8 people based on that information and your location and age

Those groups could do activities together and chat about their projects there. Not like a big social network, more like a big friend group

Would you use something like this weekly?

For a long time businesses focused heavily on followers, likes, and social media engagement. But now it feels like getting mentioned inside AI-generated answers could become even more powerful. Think about it if users directly ask an AI assistant for recommendations and instantly receive a confident answer, they may never even visit social media pages or traditional search results. That creates a completely different type of online exposure. Brands may soon care more about digital authority and structured information than viral content alone. Do you think AI recommendations could eventually influence buying decisions more than influencers or online ads?

Not just a “cool AI idea,” but something that would actually solve a real frustration in your daily life.

Could be related to:

• communication
• mental health
• accessibility
• productivity
• education
• social interaction
• career struggles
• anything honestly

I’ve been trying to understand what real problems people still face despite having so much technology around us, and I’m curious to know what people feel is still missing.

I'm a solo founder building a household management app for couples and families called Miiro. My wife and I kept losing track of things. Groceries, calendar stuff, meal ideas, who's doing what. Not because we're bad at it, but because everything lived in a different app. Notes in one place, calendar in another, grocery list somewhere else, recipes bookmarked in a browser tab from 2023.

So I built one app to handle all of it. Shared calendar, tasks, grocery lists, meals, and an AI assistant that actually does things for you (more on that later).

The first 50 users

I launched the first version about 4 months ago. Got my first 50 downloads and felt amazing. People were signing up. The idea was validated. Right?

Wrong.

I started reaching out to users. Asking what they thought, how they used it, what was missing. And the feedback hit hard.

"It's ugly." That one stung the most. I'd been staring at this thing for months. I thought it looked fine. It did not look fine.

"I don't really get how it works." There was no onboarding. None. Zero. I just dropped people into the app and hoped they'd figure it out. They didn't.

On top of that, I'd built so many features and tools that the menu and settings became impossible to navigate. I never noticed because I knew where everything was by heart. New users didn't. They opened the app, saw a wall of options, and had no idea where to start.

"These features aren't really new." And they were right. A shared calendar? A grocery list? A task manager? None of that is new on its own. But people did like the idea of having it all in one place. The bundling was the value. I just hadn't made that clear, and the execution wasn't good enough to keep them.

Out of those first 50 users, only about 10 stuck around.

The decision to stop building

This was the hardest part. I had a roadmap full of features I wanted to add. But I forced myself to stop. No new features until the foundation was solid. If people think your app is ugly and confusing, adding more stuff just makes it ugly, confusing, and cluttered.

So I went back to zero.

The 2-month rebuild

I spent the next two months rebuilding almost everything. New design system, proper onboarding flow, simplified navigation, and the biggest change of all: Sam.

Sam is an AI assistant built into Miiro. Not a chatbot that answers trivia. Sam actually does things for your household. You can tell Sam "order groceries for taco night" and it will find a recipe, build a grocery list, check prices at your local store, and place the order. You can say "plan something fun this weekend" and it searches restaurants, activities, whatever fits.

Right now grocery ordering works with Dutch stores (Albert Heijn, Jumbo, Plus, Crisp, Picnic) and US stores through Walmart and Kroger, which includes Ralphs, King Soopers, Fry's, Fred Meyer, Harris Teeter, Smith's, Dillons, and more. Together that covers a huge chunk of the American grocery market.

Under the hood, Sam is powered by Claude with 13+ tools it can call on. For stores with public APIs it connects directly. For stores that don't have APIs, it uses an on-device web agent that browses the store's website the same way you would, using your own login session. No server-side scraping, no bot detection issues. It's early and expanding, but when it works it feels like magic.

I also built proper onboarding from scratch. Instead of dumping people into an empty app, it now walks you through setting up your household step by step. You immediately see how things connect and what the app can do for you.

The results

I just crossed 100 total downloads. Getting about 5 new downloads a day organically. But the number I care about most is retention.

From the first 50 users: 10 stuck around (20%). From the last 50 downloads: almost 40 are still active (80%).

Same concept, same target audience. The difference is execution.

What I learned

1. "It's ugly" is painful to hear but it's the most actionable feedback you'll get. Design matters way more than I wanted to admit.
2. Features aren't a moat. Everyone has a to-do list app. The way features work together is what makes people stay.
3. If there's no onboarding, there's no product. People won't figure it out on their own. They'll just leave.
4. You are not your user. I knew every screen, every menu, every setting by heart. So I never noticed that the navigation was a mess. Get someone who's never seen your app to use it in front of you. Watch where they tap, where they hesitate, where they give up. That will teach you more than any analytics dashboard.
5. AI is only impressive if it does something real. Nobody cares about a chatbot. People care when it actually orders their groceries.

What's next

Still a long way to go. I'm working on better analytics, smarter suggestions that actually help instead of nagging you about overdue tasks, and expanding grocery ordering to more stores. The app is live on iOS if anyone wants to try it.

Happy to answer any questions about the build, the tech stack, the feedback process, or what it's like building a consumer app as a solo founder. And if you have brutal feedback, I can take it now. I've been trained.

I’m trying to validate a simple idea:

Do people actually want more meaningful ways to send messages, or is normal texting already enough?

I’m building a digital card where you can send someone a more personal message with a voice note or text. It’s meant for moments like:

• birthdays
• anniversaries
• apologies
• long-distance messages
• anything where a normal text feels a bit too flat

The recipient opens it like a small “reveal” instead of just reading it in a chat.

Curious if this feels genuinely useful in the UK or just like a novelty that people wouldn’t actually use.
UK service at the moment only.

Customer support feels like one of the most repetitive and frustrating parts of modern life. Cancelling subscriptions, fixing billing issues, requesting refunds, or dealing with airlines can easily waste hours for simple problems.Feels like there should be an AI agent whose whole purpose is handling these support interactions for users end to end, waiting on hold, navigating support systems, following up, and only notifying you once the issue is resolved.

No gurus, no theory - what actually put money in your pocket? Even if it was just $50–$300/month.

Hey guys, a data engineer here with close to 5 years experience in social media and crisis management (pretty weird combo of experience I know). ’ve been thinking about building an AI-powered social listening tool that analyses reels, TikToks, and videos frame-by-frame instead of relying on captions, hashtags, or comments. Social media managers currently have to manually watch huge volumes of content to understand what actually performs; this tool would automate that by identifying visual and behavioural patterns across thousands of videos, such as hook timing, pacing, camera movement, product placement, and recurring themes behind viral content.

The idea sits between Sprout Social and Sprinklr, but powered by AI computer vision rather than text-based analysis.

Beyond marketing, the same system could be used for public activity intelligence in the security space; analysing publicly available social content to detect emerging gatherings, protests, or disruptions based on visual crowd patterns and location signals, helping organisations better forecast and respond to real-world events.

In short, it’s social listening that actually watches content instead of just reading it.

Just rolled my iOS app out to its first 10 beta testers. The thing actually works. The product is, by any reasonable measure, feature-complete. My discipline is not.

Tabbed is a place to save the links you actually want to come back to. Articles, recipes, restaurants, whatever. You can co-curate shared collections with a few friends, or post a collection publicly so the people who follow you can read it and save a copy of their own. ~95% of the use cases I built it for are covered.

I'd love your help getting to ~140%.

A few already on the feature pile:

• Physical NFC tags out in the wild - a discreet tag on the counter at a bookstore, restaurant, or coffee shop. Tap your phone, get the owner's personally-curated "what to read / eat / drink next" collection. Local taste, distributed by tap.
• Public Collections - like shared collections, but anyone can subscribe as a viewer with no invite needed. A sneaker brand keeps a "drops this month" list, fans subscribe, push on every new add. Same shape works for a writer's reading list, a record store's new arrivals, or a chef's seasonal menu.
• CarPlay-aware playback - Tabbed sees CarPlay has connected and surfaces a podcast you saved a month ago and never got around to. "You wanted to listen to this. You're in your car. Now's the time."
• Geocached pings - you saved a restaurant to your Travel collection 8 months ago. You walk past it on a Tuesday in March. A quiet nudge: "You saved this place. Still want to try it?"
• Research Mode - type a subject ("kitchen renovation," "Lisbon trip"), Tabbed cross-references every tab across every collection you own and surfaces them as a temporary working set. The bookmarks you forgot you had, brought to the moment you actually need them.

What's the most ambitious, indulgent feature you've ever wished a save-for-later app had? The weirder, the more contextual, the more impractical, the better.

(Roast or contribute — both welcome.)

I keep seeing posts here and on other subreddits where people say things like "why doesn't this app exist?" or "someone please make this."

The problem? Those posts get upvotes and comments, then disappear. Nobody builds anything.

So I want to make a simple platform where:
• People post app ideas they wish existed
• Others upvote what they actually want built
• Developers can claim an idea and build it
• When it's done, the original poster and upvoters get notified first

Think r/SomebodyMakeThis but as a standalone app — with a real feedback loop between users and builders.

Before I build it, I want to know:

Would you actually use this? And what would make you post your idea there instead of just tweeting into the void?

This was never supposed to be an app (been away from coding for a bit).

I run an event planning business and somehow became the person my friends call when they have a business idea. I think because I run my own thing they assume I'll just get it. And I do, but getting it doesn't mean hyping them up.

I'd give them real feedback. Market size, who they're actually competing with, why the timing might be off. And they'd get defensive every single time. It's hard to hear honest feedback from someone you know. It feels personal even when it isn't.

So I started writing it up instead. Structured pitch, score, risks, market insight, what they should do next. Sent it back as a doc. Something about seeing it written out formally made it land completely differently than a conversation over the phone.

One friend pivoted her entire product after seeing the competitor breakdown. Another took his output straight to his first investor meeting. None of them would have received that feedback the same way if it came from me directly.

I was doing this manually for everyone. That got old fast.

So I built AI Sharks. You pitch your idea to a panel of AI sharks, they score it, grill it, show you the real risks and opportunities. Then you pick a shark to actually work with you on things like competitor scanning, financial projections, business plan PDF generation, launch steps.

The Shark Tank format was completely intentional. Nobody wants to sit down and fill out a SWOT analysis. But everyone understands what it means to walk into that room and get a verdict on your idea. That's the experience I wanted to recreate.

Built it myself. No team, no funding, doing it alongside the event planning business which honestly has prepared me more for this than anything else could have.

If you've got an idea sitting in your notes app, go pitch it. Even if the score is rough, that's kind of the point.

BTW let us connect if you have an event planning business as well.

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