Finding Startup Problems

Don't look for ideas, find problems (that more people than just you have) and solve them.

Somebody needs to create a startup to find problems for startups :-)

Don't look for ideas, look for people that have a problem that they are willing to pay you to solve.So, the question is "Ask HN: What is a problem you would pay for someone to solve."

Don't look for ideas, look for problems you want to solve.

If you don't see a problem that needs solving, then don't make a product or service.Perhaps you could offer something that doesn't solve a problem, but instead offers something nice that didn't exist before. Writing, art, comedy, and other things fall under that umbrella (one can make money off of these, though you have to be good).Trying to find a problem in need of a solution just so you can develop a solution is nearly always a recipe for future failure and disappoin

I'm sure you know this already, but I think the best ideas and the ones that you will be strongly motivated to work on are those that solve a problem for a lot of people, but principally for you. Something in your business life or elsewhere that you have found frustrating or lacking, but that has no good tech solution. But I'm sure I read it elsewhere and it made sense that it's easier to find solutions than problems. Don't look for a solution, look for a problem, a tough one, then cast a

The standard advice I've read is "find a problem you need solved".Do you collect stamps and wish you could quickly check the price of a given stamp? There's a problem you can solve. Do you wish you could sync your music to your exercise level? There's another. Make a list of those problems, and then pick one.

Find 1 person you think has this problem who is not yourself.Get this person to talk to you.Have a conversation asking them about their daily life and their pain points.See if the problem you are trying to solve comes up in conversation without you bringing it up.Take notes about their daily work and their problems.Repeat this process with 10 other people.Ask yourself if you want to solve this problem or if something else came up in conversations that would be a better problem

My recommendation is that you should start with a problem you are passionate about. Quite literally, I keep a notebook of stuff that annoys me. Then, every night I review it and try to coalesce it down to the essence of a problem. Youll find that youre probably passionate about 5 or 6 of the problems you come accross.Fix one of these problems for yourself and 99 times out of 100 someone will be willing to pay for it.

Find real problems first, then solve them by creating a Business™