What inspired you to start your project, and what drives your passion for it today?

Today, many projects are planned and managed with ease thanks to the availability of professional online tools. Such tools really inspire managers to initiate new projects and lead them to success. They simplify processes and enhance productivity. I can recall Trello, JIRA, Asana, and Wrike. But the most powerful online PM tool for our team right now is GanttPRO https://ganttpro.com/.

Great question. Simply put I couldn't find an app that helped me with my focus and productivity problem so I made one. I'm a big fan of time-blocking, and no app actually did it (this was really surprising). I work day to day as a UX designer so knew EXACTLY how it had to look and feel. And voila, my new favourite productivity app was born. I now use it every god damn day and I love it :)

The idea for (https://stare.softr.app/) came from an APM fellowship program and I found many aspiring PMs asking similar questions over and over again and the answers were given in Slack. And that that point in time I knew my niche and thought of creating a knowledge base but the problem was what to include. Went through all the comments in Slack and picked the more frequent ones. Bult an MVP and tested the idea out! and it was a great success! The idea of people learning from each other's work without irritating or expecting others to help, especially passionate folks who want to keep learning drives my passion.

Solving a real world problem and one that ive felt personally, in my case its the obstacles against startups and SMEs being able to afford adequate cybersecurity to protect themselves!

What started the project was pure pain. What drives it is seeing other people's pain go away when using Cinebody

When I was younger, it was all about the dream of money and stature. But, as I've gotten older, it's much more about exploring my passions and pushing technology into new realms. It's more fun this way for sure!

In the era of information explosion, a product was needed for summarization, so I developed Glarity.

We were constantly having troubles finding files and information in our team. That’s when Wildan, our CTO, proposed an idea of building a search engine that could scan all of our apps and find any needed data with a simple title or keyword search. Within just two weeks, we developed a working prototype that allowed us to integrate apps like Google drive, Gmail, Slack, Notion, Sigma and more to search through them with ease. Though it looked rough around the edges, we were more concerned with obtaining validation. We reached out to ten companies and were thrilled to find that they all said yes, even paying for a full year upfront. With ten paying customers onboard, we started our private beta in which we got overwhelming support. Oh, we also decided on the name — Klu.so :)

I was inspired to start InterviewJam as I needed a personalized and efficient way of preparing for behavioral questions in Interviews. After conducting several interviews as well, I noticed that people were missing out on opportunities due to the lack of communication about their value add. I wanted to build a product to help people tell their stories, and prepare efficiently.

I started because I wanted to learn programming in a new way and could not find any resources online. My plan was to study the concepts and languages using notes and flashcards. This started just as a project for myself. A few months later I decided to turn this into a commercial product to earn money and help people learn coding which I think is quite a cool thing. Nowadays I still learn different languages and then I simply turn my notes into a product. I am still learning so my business will extent naturally.

Main thing that inspired us to start evoke-app.com was my co-founder finding it near impossible to get an AI to run on his computer (instantNGP). We wanted to develop a cloud solution but found InstantNGP has a restrictive license, so instead we opted for stable diffusion and here we are today

Food and A.I. You read it right, I combined the power of Food and A.I. and made something amazing. With the power of A.I., I made an app that lets you generate recipes based on the ingredients you give it. And it’s not just limited to generating recipes, you can generate drinks, and baking recipes + you can share the recipes generated with the community within the app and even externally. Currently, Meal GOAT is available for beta testers, and you can download the app by signing up on the website. www.mealgoat.com

Love such questions, as there are always so many interesting stories! We are also started TheSprkl for our internal team purposes. For many years on almost all the projects there was a conflict between developing fast and creating good UX/UI. We wanted too make a solution that can reduce a cost but not the quality of the work. That's how we've created our design framework. Passion - feedback and results we see from using it - want to give more flexibility to the community as well. And what about you Naresh?

The shift towards a more privacy-focused future has sparked a renewed drive to develop innovative analytics tools that can operate effectively without relying on cookies.

It started in a very unusual way - I was just looking for a side project to gain product management experience, but it turned out to be much bigger. Around 5 years ago I've had to change from Law to Business studies and it was a pretty tough journey, filled with many questions, mainly related about my career. Didn't know anyone in the Business field who could help me. So, I'm trying to have this situation disappear for anyone else looking to change or grow their career, by building one place where you can connect with people who are offering the help you need. And on the other hand, those who offer services, such as professionals with expertise and career coaches find it hard to find new clients, so this will also help them! How about you @nareshmeetei ?

Honestly, I work and felt to get the best out of growing, and be ahead of the curve. Working on a project that helps me achieve this to excel and help at the companies i work with more efficiently, consistently putting in the time to not be a bottle neck as much as i can and always use this time to ask questions that i never get a chance to answer during the work day. It allows me to also experiment with new tech in my own time and just coming out that little bit better and over time having as much comfort talking about topics i wouldn't normally engage in out of not knowing if ill bring benefit to the conversation even if i know that no question should be a wrong if learning is the end goal of the conversation. Plus, because Im more introverted and always behind the computer, I can use it to get out of situations i am not ready for without others questioning which is a perk at times so my interests always seem to generally get time set aside and i get to work on projects.

We have been using the generator in-house for a year and decided to share it with other development teams. At first, it was not intended as a product.

We started because we had a problem we wished to solve which we have personal experience in. As we looked around we noticed many others had the same issues so we saw a potential market. Being brand new to this journey there was so much to learn and gain from it we got excited at the prospects. Along the way seeing ourselves grow in skill and character, it keeps us motivated to keep taking risks and growing. Additionally, getting to meet so many interesting and helpful people is an inspiration as well.

At the beginning we wanted to solve a very specific problem that had an environmental impact too. We were kind of fed up with unnecessary and unwanted Christmas presents. We looked into data on how much money and resources are wasted on unwanted presents and developed an independent wishlist (didn’t want to use amazon) and then it kind of went from there. When we looked at it from an even more zoomed out perspective the problem space appeared to be very multi-faceted which kept us going. Also wanting to creating something on your on volition probably helps in the long run :)

For some strange reason, I kept clicking 'Next' instead of 'Play' on YouTube, which led me to launch my first project. I'm hoping this will help others who have faced the same issue as me: https://producthunt.com/products...