Steal this idea: What's a product you wish someone else would build?
Ever had a random idea and thought, “Someone should totally build this”? Drop it here.
This thread’s for the stuff you don’t want to build yourself—but really wish existed. Weird, useful, hilarious, oddly specific… all fair game.
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Fine tune a model with all of my emails
Draft emails based on my previous replies
Give me a doc I can use to supercede the prompt
Take my money
@steveb Superhuman now does the first two. New Email might also be relevant?
For #4, you can send it to me. 🤑
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@steveb https://www.serif.ai/ may be what you are looking for.
@steveb building it as we speak :-) stand by
@liberty_goromonzi will be a beta user!
@steveb It's coming soon, check out Migma.ai it's more like for Email Designs that understand your brand and previous designs.
Dola: AI Calendar Assistant
@steveb True. And my whatsapp / slack messages too.
Noise-cancelling headphones that only block human voices. Keep ambient sounds but mute the guy on his phone at the coffee shop.
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@nora_lam This is such a need! Especially on public transport
@nora_lam would buy!
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@nora_lam Love this idea. I don't think it would be that hard to do either. Machine learning has been quite good at isolating human voices for a while. You need some sort of programmable noise-cancelling headphones, though, so this might be tricky to prototype. This might be easy to prototype in a call setting. For example, you could create a video or audio call and then use something like @Pipecat to route it through an AI processor.
@nora_lam @nuellaugochi Got the same question!!
@nora_lam Why hasn’t anyone built this yet??
minimalist phone: creating folders
Teleport – I really do not like when I spend 5 hours travelling. 😅
Quite unrealistic at the moment, but it would be cool to have one.
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@busmark_w_nika yeah this is my one. I think about this every time I'm about to board a flight
minimalist phone: creating folders
@aaronoleary Exactly. Just waiting for 2 hours at the airport is so time-consuming (not to mention that I have to travel to the closest airport ~3 hours). 🙈
@busmark_w_nika Same here! Every time I get off home, I wish there was a teleport to instantly beam me home.
minimalist phone: creating folders
@focusaur I would wish that with travelling from one country to another, and ideally to teleport my luggage too. Just curious how much it would cost. :D
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@busmark_w_nika This kind of exists. @tonari is a life-size portal between offices. In fact, @gabe and I recently had a chat via Tonari between SF and Tokyo...it was wild!
minimalist phone: creating folders
@gabe @rajiv_ayyangar Pretty cool. Maybe in a few years, you will be able to physically cross from one end of the world to the other through this "mirror". 😀
I have one: an animal language translator. I just got a new small kitten, and it's been meowing at me constantly, but I have no idea what it's trying to say.
@feliciana_liu People are trying, checkout Fluent
@steveb Thanks for sharing. It looks great and might be useful for training my dog. But it seems a bit difficult for a kitten because it's too playful.😹
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@feliciana_liu @theprafulmathur is building https://www.sarama.ai/ - uses vocal cues to talk to dogs!
@feliciana_liu @theprafulmathur @rajiv_ayyangar whoa!
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@feliciana_liu I did watch a youtube video from Bloomberg discussing about this topic, here you go:
Could AI Unlock the Secrets of Animal Communication? | The Future With Hannah Fry
The video introduces a product similar to what @steveb mentioned. For AI, people are collecting data for that purpose, but it still seems like there's a long way to go.
@derek_liu_dev Thanks for sharing with the video. 😸
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@harvanshchaudhary @steveb So cool! Will you advise some for X?
@harvanshchaudhary @theonebroker I've never used an AI reply bot but people seem to like @Owlead
@steveb I'm going to test it right away, despite the fact that they do not have a good look on PH @Owlead, but I found out that they are on the market since 2015. So they should otherwise make a second launch on PH.
@harvanshchaudhary Would you be interested in a tool that scans subreddits of your choice so you can analyse reddit for marketing purposes?
An app that uses a phone's gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, and GPS to determine once and for all who's a better driver; my wife or me
@bnbalestri Infinite TAM
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@bnbalestri I feel like the stronger the proof, the worse the consequences 😱
@derek_liu_dev 100% agree. Originally I thought of the idea when my kids were learning to drive. I want to show them about smooth stopping and accelerations.
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@jordi_gango Ooo, you're onto something.
@jordi_gango If you look at the wild world of AppSumo / LTD Facebook groups, you'll find this :-)
Some product that can help people do marketing at the early stage
@weblancerdev_ What kind of marketing? There are a ton of products that target this niche
@steveb for any product bcs there are few set of things that are common for all of these
Dola: AI Calendar Assistant
@weblancerdev_ Check out Aha. It's the 2nd product of the month last month (2nd I think).
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"Make me better" AI - that guides me to become better at each area of life.
@neelptl2602 Each area such as? As a generalist how do you think about specialization?
Oh man, I have one.
Have you tried opening bank accounts and a payment gateway for a new company? I hate spending hours doing KYCs, when I've already made dozens.
If there was a software where I can upload all my documents just once, and then it gets sent to all the institutions that I want automatically... TAKE.MY.MONEY
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@david_conelly Yeah, banking in general needs a serious dose of automation. I remember moving to England and even trying to open a personal one was hell
A realtime map of available parking spots at Costco
Okay but seriously… why hasn’t anyone built this yet?
I don’t need another AI tool that writes emails or organizes my day—I need one that just says:
Like a Reverse To-Do List.
It looks at my calendar, my energy, maybe the weather too—and tells me what not to do today. 😅
Dumb idea or genius? Someone please build this. I’ll be first in line to use it.
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Social media these days seems to only push us content that interests us, which is certainly addictive, but sometimes I reflect on whether this is too centralized, causing me to not learn about other areas. But when I do want to read something else, I don't know where to start.
It would be great if this plugin could detect this and randomly disrupt my pushes for a while, would be great to plan for!
@rohit11 Could you pls explain more in detail?
@venkatesh_nune1 @rohit11 What would this accomplish? Can't you do this in Figma or using something like Loom if browsing an actual site?
A central dashboard (vaguely similar to a financial dashboard) connected to all forms of interpersonal communication (email, texting, Slack, Telegram, social media DMs, transcribed voicemails, etc.) so you could view and respond to any message from one screen and maybe even drag-and-drop an inbound message from its original platform to another for replying.
If you were waiting for a message from Joe Shmo and didn't know how he'd try to reach out, you could have a saved search that would check for new messages from him (and any other saved search inquiries) and alert you when important messages had arrived. Otherwise, you could skip all other notifications and do your deep work unless Joe Shmo, your spouse, or your kids' school was contacting you.
@proforganizer https://texts.com/ gets close to this I believe...
@steveb It's a good start. I remember when this was launched, and because it's backed by Automattic, I have some faith in their ability to expand and have more of the connections and features I'm seeking. Thanks for the reminder, as they've improved upon things since I first heard about them.
SEO positioning and followers acquisition (2-in-1) tool for blogs, like Medium.
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@siddharthpereira 1. Medium is not easy for a follower acquisition. Meanwhile, I am posting the content through the publishing community (Coinmonks, Capital for example) for a better visibility, I am straggling a lot for getting new followers. 2. I noticed that Medium articles in general have a good SEO positioning in Google, in some of the cases even better than Binance Square, X, ect.
So it would be interesting to solve these two issues in one tool and not have to switch from different tools.
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If you are reading physical books in a language that is not your native one, usually you dont know some words. Picking up the phone every time you want to know the meaning and google translate it is just exhausting. I want a mini digital glass that fits to my pointer finger. Every time i dont know the word i just want to tap the word i dont know with my finger who was that glass and see the answer. That would be the most useful thing for us readers. Build it, i can pay up to 1,000$ for it :P
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Product Hunt for Vibe Coding.
I mean, I can probably build this with a few prompts but it needs some heavy marketing.
@ileibov https://launched.lovable.dev/ :-)
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@steveb it’s only for Lovable products, though. They should have tried and claim ownership on this whole movement and made it for all tools IMO.
A windows program similar to Recall that does not store screenshots. Tried screenpipe but it did not capture remote desktop sessions.