What inspired you to start your startup? 💡

We wanted to explore AI based side project with a friend. We spent a few weeks trying to figure out problems we could solve around "work automation". We were trying to get some interviews to better understand people's workflows and challenges but we were struggling a lot: Most people wouldn't reply, and when they did it could take weeks to get on a call. We then considered using an online survey to get some insights but we quickly realised we would need to really adapt to the user answers and to dig deeper "on the fly". That's when we got the idea of using AI to run user interviews and to follow up on people's answers. We're hoping to launch AskMore next week: https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

I grew up gaming. And as a kid I loved Oregon Trail, Treasure Mountain, and even Reader Rabbit. I really didn't even realize I was learning back then but I was having a blast as a kid! Fast forward to today. My co-founder was standing in line at Best Buy. He had a Quest 2 in his hands. A lady came up to him and asked if he knew any good games for her kids since she was buying 2 headsets herself. When he told me the story, I remember the joy I had as a kid playing these games. So I started looking to see what is out there today. I just wasn't impressed. It seemed like the effort were put more towards profits than the game. So... We decided... with ZERO game dev experience... to found an educational gaming company. (come from software dev & marketing backgrounds) I'm extremely thankful I did. Yes its been incredibly stressful but the hard work and endurance are starting to pay off. We have an amazing team now and I have learned so much. We're even working with schools and libraries now. Its absolutely amazing to create a company that provides an impact. Just shows what you can do if you just try.

I strive to develop in the fields of knowledge to the level to create products that solve both my problems in life and the tasks of most people. It's interesting! And learning by creating something useful is even cooler ^^

I struggled with anxiety for most of my adult life and it hindered me from living my life as I wanted to. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helped me minimize it enormously, but paying for therapy is horribly costly and also inconvenient. It pained me that it had to be so hard, and I also thought about all the people out there who couldn't even afford a single session with a therapist. I was using CBT journaling as part of my process, and I saw great potential in it. By following a specific journaling structure, you can literally retrain the way your brain works. It felt so powerful, but I couldn't find a good tool for it that utilized the technique well enough. So, I started to wonder if the concept could be served to people in a more accessible and appealing way while still maintaining its solid technical approach. So that was the beginning of Unstuck. Working on it is incredibly rewarding as I feel like it can really help people in need, but it's also one of the most daunting endeavors in my life, and it makes me thankful that I also have Unstuck for my own use, to give me my daily founder anxiety relief.

Several friends from my family circle died suddenly in their 50s. None of them were sick, at least not to our knowledge, and as you might guess, cardiovascular diseases were the cause. But back then, I didn't think that these events could have been prevented. A few years later, I started working for Fitbit, which had acquired a company that was developing a platform for people with chronic diseases. The thought that was circulating among many was - if I had known earlier, then never... That's how my project began.

I want to find out why some small businesses grow and others fail, so I was fascinated by learning more about marketing and found myself developing my project to help small businesses grow without the need for a big budget to hire a real expert marketer & to help inexperienced marketers handle their work. And I'm trying to use the project itself to grow independently and attract clients

For me I have been working as a developer for the past few years, and wanted to try out launching my own product, since I felt like I had enough experience from my day-job to give it a try. The product that I starting developing was a fitness app, because as someone that goes to the gym I wanted something super simple and quick way to log/track my progress of exercises without going through the hassle of going through a lot of menus in other fitness apps to log my workouts. Also, I found it hard to program an exercise in advance so I wanted to be able to schedule workouts in advance. So, in turn a solution to my gripes was building a mobile app which I'll be launching on Monday.

Starting 'March Health' wasn't just about business. It was inspired by seeing my wife's struggles with endometriosis and her miscarriages. Every time she was in pain, I thought of all the other women facing similar reproductive health challenges. They all deserve better, and that's why I started my startup.

The core business of our company is email marketing. There is so much to do that we have always been looking for tools that would help us do more tasks in less time. First of all, we needed a user-friendly email editor for the team and for clients. But everything we found and tried didn't meet our basic needs, didn't allow us to meet our customers' expectations. So we kept looking. All editors have their pros and cons. The vast majority of editors are too simple and not suitable for agency tasks. Editors with support for working with code are slow, limited, it is impossible to layout classically in them, solving any task, because they always have some rules and a lot of restrictions. You can't even dream of working with an existing letter or dynamic content. In the process of searching, the team formed a common vision of what qualities an ideal letter editor should have for an agency, a client or any other user, but we did not find anything even close to this vision. All this forced us to create Blocks.

I faced a problem myself and couldn't find a quick solution. So I decided to make the solution myself and help others to solve the same problem. By the way, we are making a user-friendly financial planner for SaaS startups that doesn't demand deep financial knowledge.

I'm just tired of being dependent on the whims of employers. And when you have a startup you are your own boss.

I was doing a lot of research into new areas for work that required watching a lot of tech talks, interviews and podcasts to capture latest thoughts in the area. It was time consuming! So, I built transcript lol to help with extracting key points, summaries, topics etc from audio, video content. It saved me hours since then. Made it into a product because my colleagues also wanted to use it. With a few more tweaks, now it's being used by over 500 users to save hours everyday! I'm honored with the reception and working on ways to improve it based on feedback and my own dogfooding experience. It's launching on Product Hunt tomorrow. Support me if you think this is helpful!

You know what they say, necessity is the mother of invention. We saw a pressing need in the market - companies are comverting only 6-10% of their leads and these same companies are waisting incredible amount of money on tools like Gong, Chorus AI, Clari to trying to increase these numbers. The problem with the current tools is that they show you some metrics but not actionable steps that will really help you to convert more deals, be more efficient and push sales. We found a better solution and acted on it! 😊

Solving your problem and the problems of others

Getting fired for no cause.

The reason of start and my main motivation for working on my startup is that I can bring value for people and society in general When you help people solve their problems and pains, when you make their life easier—you definitely feel like it not for nothing!

Working with clients and understanding what they needed and their frustration while at the same time understanding where are the negative aspects of making working on a product video

Perfeição de projeto. Todos estão de parabéns.

After majoring in Mechanical Engineering, I landed a job in a reputable company in the industry. While the work was fulfilling, one thing always struck me: the software applications we used were, to put it politely, lacking in the UI-UX department. It wasn't just the outdated aesthetics that bothered me; the poor design was a daily obstacle. Tasks that should've taken seconds ate up minutes; a labyrinth of menus and buttons made even simple commands a chore. All of these hiccups took away from the efficiency of highly skilled engineers. I couldn't help but think, "We can do better. We have to do better." So, fueled by my newfound mission to marry mechanical engineering and UI-UX design, I decided to start my own company. A startup focused on overhauling the stale, cumbersome software plaguing mechanical engineering firms with sleek, intuitive solutions. It wasn't easy. There were skeptics who didn't see the value in improving something as 'trivial' as software design in a field dominated by heavy machinery and complex systems. But, as engineers, aren't we trained to optimize and innovate? Fast forward to today, my company now partners with leading firms in the mechanical engineering sector. We are revolutionizing the way engineers interact with their tools, making workflows more efficient and life a whole lot easier. For those of you still sitting at the crossroads of what you studied and what you're passionate about, know this—sometimes the most disruptive innovations come from combining worlds that appear to be poles apart. It turns out, the gears and levers of mechanical engineering and the pixels and palettes of UI-UX design aren't that different after all. Both are about creating solutions that work not just effectively, but elegantly. And that's a mission I am proud to be a part of.