Startups & Ventures

2021-04-02 12:37:12 Artificial voice creator
A tool that allows you to create a custom voice from scratch. You pick voices you like, then modify them to reach the voice you'd like. There is an option to combine the current voice with another one you like. The tool gives you the possibility to listen to the voice with custom texts. Open / Comment

2021-03-27 21:43:44 App marketplace
A platform that distributes mobile apps, PWAs. Unlike Apple and Google Play, it doesn't take a registration fee. The problem it solves is providing people a new place in the game on a monopolized market. Open / Comment

2021-03-24 21:41:20 Questions to ask yourself that help to understand if you're on a correct path in your startup journey:

1. Do you have an idea? What problem does it solve? If you don't know the problem, go find it. The next questions don't apply until then.

2. Can you state a problem clearly? If it takes an essay to describe, probably it's not that clear.

3. Have you experienced it yourself? If so, it's good because you know what the pain points are.

4. Do you know what kind of people has the same problem?

5. How often do they have the problem? If they return after 5 years, that's not great.

6. How intense is the problem? It should be intense, so people return to you, pay money just to diminish the problem.

7. Are people willing to pay? And to test that you need to sell the product because questions like that on potential customers don't work as you expect.

8. How easy the potential customers to find? They will not be searching for you.

The other questions are more about is your product solves the problem and finding a product-market fit. That's another topic.

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2021-03-23 20:55:36 Open / Comment

2021-03-22 21:04:25 Theme generator for X platform
There is still demand for WordPress websites, hence themes for it. And there are many platforms/CMSs where a community makes free and paid themes. The problem is what if I want a custom theme? Sure, I could develop it by myself(if I have the skills, it'll take time), or, what is more usually happens, I could hire developer(s). In the last case, it takes money.
The solution is to provide a tool that allows people to create custom themes with the necessary integrations(a nice-to-have feature, but not essential) for some platform.
Monetization: one-time payment per the theme. Plus, there could be agencies/people who need many themes, so there may be a subscription scheme. Open / Comment

2021-03-19 22:35:10 Convenient CV
A tool that helps to manage your CVs and keep them up to date. The problem is to update them: you need to edit PDF manually by adding new experience and changing skills level and so on. The tool should help you to eliminate the pain.
It's like versioning your resume. Open / Comment

2021-03-17 10:10:23 I assume there are people in this channel who want to study something but lack a direction. I saw questions about how to write an app - what prerequisites one need to do that. I wrote an introduction post about the learning direction. As for programming,… Open / Comment

2021-03-17 09:47:18 Virtual reality quest
A quest, but in virtual reality. You design a world(a few rooms, for example) programmatically instead of renting a place, devices and propose the services only to local people. Thus, people don't need to go to a renting place but download the quest. Plus, the quest is available to many people at once, alike from a few people per time for real quests. Open / Comment

2021-03-16 09:33:28 Publishing platform
Where is no voting system, so no rating for posts. That enables non-popular authors to write and have their articles be visible to all the readers.
However, the platform should have an option to report if an article is of low quality. If many users report that, the moderators should take a look and if the article is of really low quality, then make showing it to fewer people.
There should be a great recommendation system. If you like A, the system recommends a similar article.
Authors have their profiles, so users can go there and read more about an author, check their other posts, go to a personal website.
It's like Medium without claps, garbage articles, and just better. Open / Comment

2021-03-13 20:27:52 Gratitude net
An app that tracks your gratitude feelings where you may point target people, so they'll get notified, though all of that is anonymous. Or, there is a possibility to not be anonymous, and people will receive messages saying you're grateful to them. Open / Comment