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Where and how did you come up with the idea of your startup?

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I am far from a shopaholic, but recently I realised that I spend too many hours on online shopping in order to buy ordinary casual clothes. So, I decided to create a smart shopping assistant which helps to buy branded clothes cheaply and save time.

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Tim Nicholas
For over 10 years a family member never questioned their electricity provider about the rate they were paying. Turns out they had been upgraded to the most expensive plan after starting on a discounted plan for 'new customers' all those years ago. So they paid thousands of dollars more for electricity. This is called the 'loyalty tax' and is what happens when consumers don't have the motivation or confidence to shop around when a service contract/plan is expiring. Most stay with the existing provider. That's why we created the GetReminded app for iOS and Android. Consumers enter the expiry date and the app sends alerts so people get time and motivation to check the market. In-app contextual ads enable people to shop around easily and quickly.
Di
@tim_nicholas ha-ha! I also don't know my tariff plan of electricity. But I use a standard iPhone app to remind me of something.
Tim Nicholas
@mironshe of course a standard phone app can 'remind' you. So we built additional functionality that phone apps don't have: ie dual app & email notifications; expense & budgeting calculator; multiple alerts so you don't swipe away and forget; and in-app shopping links to make it easy to start shopping around. šŸ˜Ž
Kirill Tupikov
The idea must be sought in the pains and needs of the people around, no matter how trite it may sound. I watched my girlfriend, how much time and money she spends on visiting a beautician, she was very annoyed (so my friends and I decided to help her somehow) we made a prototype with augmented reality on Instagram, tested it, received more than 100 profiles with positive reviews. It became clear that this could work) So we founded forYou - a beautician in your smartphone
Di
@kirill_tupikov wow wow wow! how does it work? Share the product
Kate Dalessi
Ideas are easy, they come in 1$ per kilo:) What to do with the idea is a bigger question IMHO:) To turn an idea into a startup the minimum requirement is to take it through the idea validation funnel; and the funnel depends on your starting point: connections, SM audience, specifics of your idea, etc...
Di
@katyaveremeichik I agree with you. The idea is really free $. My question was, under what situation did this happen? What kind of pain did you see in the market?
Kate Dalessi
@mironshe in our case the clients were requesting one thing over and over, and we decided to make it) the pain was the complexity of excisting approval solutions. For just one small feature - like exporting a .csv r an .xlxs of access approval history fro complience - they had to purchace heavy expensive software they have no other use for
Kasper Kerem
I am a data guy especially the location and behavioural analytics. I have been working on the topic for the past 17 years and have seen all issues in and out. Many recurring and expensive, so we built a (location) data analytics for mobile phones and IoT devices that scale and focus on privacy - making it simpler and affordable for our customers
Di
@kasper_kerem wow, great! Who are your clients?
Kasper Kerem
@mironshe current focus is on the apps where location is not the main business, but secondary. Travel and delivery mainly
Marie Nodet
We realized that marketers are always overwhelmed, trying to get leads everywhere. And still, most B2B businesses donā€™t convert more than 2% of their website visitors. Stacking Google Analytics + a form plugin + an emailing software doesnā€™t answer the problem: itā€™s complicated to know what leads are doing, how they came, and what marketing campaign worked. Lots of products exist, but they either cost a lot of money or need hard work and custom integrations to get the big picture about lead acquisition. Thatā€™s why weā€™ve created Plezi One : a freemium tool to analyze your website performance and make the most of your content strategy : leverage your website to increase conversion rate and get valuable information about your leads. PS : Today is the big launch day ! We are third šŸš€ If you want to support us, it would be very appreciated !
Di
@marie_nodet I can't understand why GA doesn't solve the problem above? and I definitely want to be your client!
Sunil Khedar
The most number of ideas originate when we see gaps in the market and the pain points that we feel while using a service. How to bring your idea to life is a completely different question.
Di
@sunilkhedar84 if the market really has a pain or a problem, then there will definitely be a solution
Sunil Khedar
@mironshe Solutions are not always there. Covid has shown us how people came up with new solutions to fulfil the changed market conditions.
Ebba Cronqvist
Sounds like a really cool product. I can relate - I'm completely hopeless at both online and real-life shopping, still spend a lot of time doing it šŸ˜… When it comes to my own idea; I love remote work, I think it's an absolute life upgrade, but I miss bouncing ideas, thinking out loud, and casually connecting with my coworkers. Realized that I always started conversations by asking if people were available if I could disturb them, and checking their calendars(which is wayyy too tedious that I wouldn't do it too often). Whereas in an office, I would just look around and talk to whoever was free/not focused. So right now I'm working on a really simple tool making availability more visible for my team, as well as other hybrid product teams.
Di
@ebbacronqvist I really wondered what you were doing. Let me know when you are done with the product, I will your beta tester =))
Rehan Choudhry
My wife is a news anchor and was creating :60 video tributes for each of the first NYC Covid victims. We were in quarantine and I had a front row seat to the entire process. Hearing the pain that each person she interviewed was facing served as not only inspiration, but also a reminder of the pain I personally went through after facing losses. It sent me down a rabbit hole of research and testing until Chptr was born.
Di
@rehan_choudhry1 unfortunately, not all products come from something good. What does your product do? Why is it needed?
Marie
I spend my time looking up the 'whys' of trends. Who started it, where did it spin off to, how long did it take to take off? I know it sounds strange but it made me really want to dive in and then eventually sparked me thinking... someone may want this data!
Di
@marie_wff Hmm, why are you doing this? what is the final goal?
Marie
@mironshe For me it is just an interest I have had for a long time. Literally looking at the stats. When I realized no such site exists, I began building willfansfollow (dot) com. Not much to look at for now and experimenting. Not sure if I have an end goal in mind atm.
Ganesh Chavan
Great idea, But startup ideas must be like that they help in solving people's daily needs.
Di
@ganesh_chavan18 isn't buying clothes an everyday thing?
Ganesh Chavan
@mironshe It's a great idea, but if there are already big competitors in the market, you should have excellent planning and be unique and exciting.
Irete Hamdani
I like to say that I didn't found my startup, my startup found me. I am my own consumer. I was looking to lead a more sustainable lifestyle and found how hard it was to find reliably sustainable products online. That's how askBelynda came to be. I launched on PH today, check it out! https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Seraina Silja HĆ¼rlimann
After hosting a podcast called The Idealists (https://theidealists.co), we realized how engaging audio is. We asked: Are companies creating podcasts internally to engage and connect their employees? Long story short: Yes, they do. But they mentioned how messy it is to share episodes with their employees. That's why we started building Pager (https://pager.fm), a private podcast platform for teams ā€” making podcasting for work a piece of cake. šŸŽ™
Di
@serainasilja why do companies need podcasts?
Seraina Silja HĆ¼rlimann
@mironshe Hi, thanks for being curious! Podcasts bring a new spin to internal communications: hearing directly (and therefore in a more authentic way) from leadership, peers, and teammatesā€¦ without sitting in front of a screen. Employees can listen whenever it suits them!
Andre Dike
Any link to your shopping assistant?
Di
@andre_dike we have launched an upcoming product and will officially show the product to the community in a couple of weeks https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Steven Zoo
I made rate.house because there wasn't a platform where I can track and rate music, movies, TV, books, games, and podcasts all in one place. I made WordHoot because I liked Wordle but wanted to play it repeatedly and against friends. I made newsasfacts.com because I wanted to catch up with important world events in under a minute from trustworthy sources. Essentially, they're all conceived from the question "does this thing I want exist?" and the answer being no.
Di
@steven_rh nice! What's about marketing? How are u going to promote this?
Jimmy Spikes
The beach one day
Di
Jimmy Spikes
@mironshe i was on the beach one day thinking about everyone i had lost in my life and really how little i knew and i had from them from family and friends
Sean Song
As a startup, we use Macbook + speakerphone + type-C usb hub for meetings (Zoom, teams) every day. And sometimes we work from home with these devices too. So we wanted to build one integrated device for Macbook. That's HiDock: https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Thomas Surmann
I guess it's the easiest to work in an area where you're facing and understanding the problem yourself. So I came up with a tool to generate code for Spring Boot developers.
Arvindh Sundar
I wish I had a better answer, but mine came up from a need to monetize my skills + my need to manage ADHD. (Ņ‚ā—”Ģ€_ā—”Ģ)į•¤
DJJD
Was trying to solve my problem of not having an excellent and vast social media presence, which was hindering my growth efforts significantly.
Di
@gmrlbiz I'm sorry, but to be honest I didn't understand anything. What problem does your product solve?
DJJD
@mironshe the problem of having small or non-existing social media presence, which is extremely common for brands/creatives.
Cassandra
When I work late in the company, when I want to be free from the heavy data, I naturally have new ideas.
Di
@bgsubcassandra what do you do next with your ideas?
Cassandra
@mironshe I spend most of my time at work changing backgrounds for images, so I created a website to help me automate the work. It is now being tested before release and I think it will be a successful product