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I like it! I think you could repurpose the way Toucan approaches learning another language. They're a chrome extension that replaces random words on a webpage with words from the language you want to learn, then you can hover it and see the english version to learn the word.

You could do something similar by replacing random words with synonyms. Then if the user marks that they want to learn that word more you could keep replacing any synonyms with that word as they browse.

It looks like they've been funded now and they're experimenting with monetization by allowing businesses to "sponsor" a word.

It's called News Aggregation and theres a billion of them out there here's one of the first results when I searched google, to get some ideas: https://lifehacker.com/5845798/five-best-news-aggregators

Never mind the fact that every single Apple user has one on their iPhone/iPad/Apple Computer - the News App :-)

Nextdoor [https://nextdoor.com/] is pretty much this idea. It's a social media platform where you receive messages from people within your zip code; they're already pretty big, having raised 200 million+ in VC funding. In my opinion, social media in general is pretty crowded already, even if you spin it as "hyper-local".

I think it would be difficult to compete with Notion, they’re just so well made and offer tons of features and customization. For instance you mention you may want a table near a calendar. Here is a Notion template that seems to do that: https://www.notion.so/Course-Planning-bc1eaf27fae743d7ae1821cadcffb578

No there are lots of examples online for free - why not watch a few episodes of Dragons den (UK) version to get an idea of how to pitch.

Here is Thiels pitch template: https://www.slideshare.net/AlexanderJarvis/peter-thiel-pitch-deck-example

Looking more into this because this is an issue that resonates with me. I'm constantly searching for quality content and its bit of a battle.

I had a similar idea in the past where I thought I would create a site with all my favourite content organized in a clean fashion. I watch a fair amount of content related to self development for instance so I thought I'd gather the best videos about dealing with anxiety and stress, dealing with relationships, meditation, interviews with wise folks, etc. I would also watch a lot of science oriented videos, DIY stuff...

So curating content is definitely awesome. I see that there are a few sites out there doing it, and they all look pretty cool, some of them are topic specific too. https://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/09/14/9-sites-to-watch-excellent-curated-videos/#.tnw_K63BBkhb

I'm still scratching the surface here but most of them look free so I don't know if they make a dime from it. :/ http://brainpump.net/ is pretty neat for instance.

In theory it's a great idea. In practice it needs you to be very thorough, extremely detailed and bring out the learning very clearly

A similar idea that is doing very well already is software ideas. It has ~400 paying subscribers.

Kevin, the creator, is building in public and recently shared his progress and learning in a post on indiehackers.

But the wiki voyage site has its own app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage

Where users are constantly upgrading the content. I'm kinda lost where is the added value?

I don't know if you found this already or not, but this has been done minus the bar snacks. Peter Theil's book "Zero to One recommends having an idea with at least 10x better "something" to overtake first comers. Just food for thought. And for beer. http://www.beermonthclub.com/

Why did you try and get a patent? Seems like a waste of money IMHO, especially without a proof of concept.

I would recommend creating an MVP first before asking for money. Also, most successful social media companies have started small and expanded through word of mouth (check out founding of FB, Pinterest, YikYak)

Peter Thiel's Zero to One also has some on-site on this

Udacity has a free course How to build a startup by Steve Blank.

Other than that, just start doing. Traction triumph everything. If you will have users, customers, validation everything else will eventually follows.

One of the 2 creators of Reddit wrote a book about it. Its pretty short and actually very motivating.

TLDR of what I remember. They created the community artificially by making the first couple hundred posts themselves by linking news sites as different accounts. Then when they started getting real users they were very quick to listen to all feedback.

Set up an ESOP. Give them equity and if they believe enough in the business vision, they'll join. You can watch this for a clearer overview.

Content platforms are challenging in general. I am just trying to ask you the questions I ask myself, I am building a content platform as well. Would love to hear your thoughts on it

https://www.notion.so/Smarcart-d3bc7753d4104ba0aa5cdecd2af3469b

Thanks!

This might sound stupid.

1. Without watching the Youtube video, it is not possible to scan your website and get what you do.
2. The benefits to the user are confusing at best and unclear otherwise.
3. Your site is targeted at those who use numbers for decision making. Check out todoist.com. It is a productivity app. Compare the color choice and design to yours. Do the same with dozens of other successful apps targeted at professionals.

I like your idea. It is different. But I still don't see the benefits to me over a survey or poll of my users.

I hope you succeed and go very far with this.

Good luck.

> but to make it sustainable and planet friendly,

> In my opinion it's important to not only let planet-friendly-like-people buy 'good' stuff, but also people who are not ready for this (yet)

How?

Sustainable things are expensive (think recycled plastics), filled with hot air and marketing speak (like organic food) or bad (think plastic bags made from degradable plastics).

The few things I've seen and verified as high quality, sustainable prodution chain and decent design were ridiculously expensive. Last example that comes to mind is a set of wooden blocks (toys), made in France, retailing for around €120. Why buy those when you can buy two sets of laser cut, extra polluting, unsustainable balsa wood grown, 3D puzzles like this moving locomotive for $45?

I don't think the problem is availability. People who want to buy sustainable stuff, and have the financial capability will find a way. Most people can't buy sustainable things, because there are very few fully sustainable production chains that can replace modern goods.

So, again, I ask - how?

> I’ve heard that when it comes to startups, the most important thing is the problem, not the solution / idea.

uhmmmm maybe.

> But when I think about the problems that I have as a consumer, I haven’t actually even googled solutions to a lot of them.

LOL, good self awareness. Next time on eof your friends, family, acquaintances, co-workers or strangers complains about something, ask them "Did you try to google it?" They didn't. And if you continue down that road, and google for them and show them people with their same problem that solved it... they will tell you - sight unseen - "That won't work for me". And if you persist in "helping" them, you might even be punched in the face.

> So my question is — what’s the difference between the kind of problem that YOU (not an abstract question!) are willing to pay for and the ones you’ll continue to live with?

Here's the thing. Looong time ago I stopped coming up with business ideas for things/services that people need, and I have switched to business ideas for things/services that people want. Tink Facebook, or Instagram, Pinterest. There are no pain point, there are no problem to be solved; people didn't need those, people want those.

Since you have a keen sense of observation, go and observe this: when people buy things they need they are very price-conscious, when people buy things they want price is not an issue (hello iPhone and iPad, omakase sushi, vacations, Ferrari, Rolex....).

Good book if you want to discover more on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Up-Consumers-Goods-Companies/dp/1591840708

That's funny haha, I made two apps that are similar to the ones you describe:

The first one is called Optimozor, it can automatically translate, correct and summarize essays/texts.

The second one is called Grampod, it can generate music videos for Instagram from a Youtube video.

I'm a developer, which is why I was implementing Stripe manually.

You do have to obtain approval to use Stripe for your business. They consider Remote Techincal Support to be a "High-Risk Bussiness" due to the possibility of chargebacks. In my case, my business model was different enough that they didn't consider it to be high risk.

If you email Stripe Support, they'll pass on the information you provide to their review team. They also have you fill out a form.

See here: https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses

Some Payment Gateways exist specifically for high-risk businesses though, so you may want to look into them.

Should have thought to mention this earlier, but Udacity has a great course on general startup-ing. https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245

Watch that, clarify and refine your idea, and build some good mock ups of what you're envisioning the software to look like.

A crypto company, https://rawg.io/ already got a working website for this. They've got a quite a few big influencers behind them, such as CEO of Niantic, ESL Asia, the Founder of RAWG also founded Kanobu, and brought in a bunch of other Eastern European big hitters

The software projects on Flippa are business products. I'm talking about open source products developed by individuals. I doubt products on Flippa were made by one person.

Here is a website that motivated me: https://itch.io/

The apps are more open source projects which app owner can make money selling their apps. It's really for app developers who like to support each other.

Here is an example that's similar: https://itch.io/

What do you think?

1st Question)

Yes. That is correct.

2nd Question)

No, so apps on MeetSource are commercial products. I'm talking about side project apps that are developed by indie developers? MeetSource and similar business sell commercial products. On my idea I'm more focused on allowing users to sell app (with a charge or free) that doesn't require a license (open source). You require a commercial license for apps on MeetSource or even SellMyApp.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about, it's similar but in a different field: https://itch.io/

Hmmm, after thinking deeper into this, what you actually need is a marketplace like Fiverr.com but based on location. Cos I don't think you actually need a musician on the double right? Thus, you'd have more clone scripts to choose from. I don't know anyone but I'm sure the team building the software could provide you good tech support.

Sounds like you're describing kayak's explore feature:

https://www.kayak.com/explore/

Select departure airport, select when you want to go, and see where the cheapest flights are.

Cool stuff, i think some people are okay with providing email but it'll be tough to find those who are. I had an idea in the past to collect people's travel itinerary via email and most feedback sessions did not go well because of buy-in. Even from my friends.

This was successful though, https://www.tripit.com

Maybe https://uploadcare.com/ can save you time/bandwidth and make upload work for mobile. I haven't used it for that. I am trying to get it to work for a simple CDN for static pictures on my page to optimize that.

Hello!

Yes indeed you can style the components to match style. You can check this video (duration: 4m 14s) the video demonstrates how you can style using CSS classes but you can also pass in Bootstrap/Foundation classes as mentioned in this guide (check "btn-classes" attribute at point 2 under "Install using CDN")

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>Not sure if you have the correct UI components but certainly solves a problem if you have the right pieces.

I'm curious to know more about this :) which other components do you think I should include?

I would like to take a totally different approach.

There are 3 things. (actually 4 but 3 are totally fine)

1)Things that you know.

2)Things that you don't know. (The name of Mongolian President?)

3)Things that you don't know that you don't know. (Maybe Mongolia has a Government designation as "akljfadjsf", you don't know that you don't know it)

I personally think that whenever one gets stuck he should work in the 3rd sphere. Try to get to know the things in the 3rd sphere. And if you think about it, whenever one is stuck in life and subsequently one somehow gets unstuck, it is mostly because we come to know of something that we did not know that we didn't know it.

Based on what I could perceive about you; I could think of and recommend multiple things but its gonna take some time and again what I have perceived about you I would suggest that you look into for example into this

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/steve-martin-teaches-comedy

-->>This is totally unrelated to what you are asking

-->>This is just one example of what I'm talking about

In other words explore..

You cannot truly explore unless..

1)Box in your Biases, Ego and Preconceived Opinions (open a whole new world of people for yourself by interacting with people who already are not like you)

2a)Admitting that you don't know

2b)Not assuming anything

2c)Not trying to explain what you cannot (A lot of people massage their ego in this manner)

Only with the above 4 conditions fulfilled..

3) You ask Questions and Explore the world and get unstuck hopefully.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/inside-the-secret-world-of-global-food-spies?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Inscatech is an example. It uses block chain to do grocery store isle spying for grocery chains and identify violators of environmentally unsafe ingredients in food items.

Hello, What you propose are really two products: - An online portfolio for designers, photographers, creatives, etc ... is a very competitive market already. I spent a year trying to get ahead https://worka.io and I assure you that the war to get traffic against crevado, smugmug, format and others is very hard and also you have to take into account myportfolio by Adobe, Wordpress templates, Wix, Squarespace .... crazy. - On the other hand is the option of "curriculums" more colorful than a profile at linkedin. There the market is more open since there are few platforms like https://enhancv.com, etc ... but I am not sure that it is a customer profile willing to pay for such a service, so you will be forced to search a business model about advertising or marketplace. To my way of thinking, too complex for a single person.

What do you think would be your differentiation with what currently exists in the market?

In any case it is only my opinion. Good luck with the project.

It's a tough space, lots of players. You should try your luck posting on producthunt and get some traffic, doing some SEO, optimize your page speed (so you will rank higher on search results). https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights

goodluck!

Thanks for the feedback.

Sure, the stack consists of react-native (https://reactnative.dev/) which can be compiled and deployed to both platforms. It would of taken only a couple months to build if worked on full time, however, it took much longer since it sat as a side project with only a few hours a week dedicated.

I just searched this term on google and found a website thats doing this for free.

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.google.com/xPmMwnkK

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Is this different from what you are suggesting here?

Notion is a good example but they're still limited.

Spreadsheets, mind maps and similar things are not there.

It's docs + databases.

I just found another similar tool which is more similar to what I started building https://coda.io/welcome.

P.S. Thanks for the reply.

I think it really needs a lot of more detail into the title, description and photos. At first glance I don't really get what the app is for. Is it like a note taking app? Like sticky notes? Take a look at Google Keep's product page, it has so much detail on the title, description and photos. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep

Think about SEO, how would people find your app? What are they looking to do that your app would help them do?

update someone made it and its available on amazon now i ordered it will let yall know how it works https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T8R5ZTP?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image

> technologies or major trends that are insignificant right now will emerge and be something big in the future(Future I mean 3-6 years).

None that fits your stringent criteria.

If you're interested these are good books for you:

• https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244

• https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Solution-Creating-Sustaining-Successful/dp/1422196577

I just launched my first game, im still trying to see if it has potential, i wish you would advise me how to promote it.I just launched a little company with 2 friends and our first issue is marketing we have no ideea how it works, would be nice a little help.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ratacensi

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Here's the Tshirts, I found them in Walmart: https://www.amazon.com/Hanes-X-TempTM-Crewneck-Undershirt-2535X3/dp/B00JG15MP2/ref=sr_1_2/141-7487446-9986858?ie=UTF8&qid=1504232190&sr=8-2&keywords=hanes+xtemp

I don't know if they do the same thing for socks, but that would be awesome if they did.

The compression part is probably just the thickness of the socks. I just bought new socks about a month ago and they've already started to break down. They need to have more elastic. Most likely you won't get the range of sizes, so they would be size specific, but they would be great for sports.

You could look at how the foot works, example, have a strap of elastic around the arch, maybe even adjustable so there is support at the arch.

I would probably buy some of the Xtemp shirts and some compression shirts and do that for socks. Advertise them on motorcycle sites and health/fitness sites.

https://www.amazon.com/Ruzishun-Compression-Athletic-Blending-3Pairs/dp/B06XYBDKXZ/ref=sr_1_3?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1504232532&sr=1-3&nodeID=7141123011&psd=1&keywords=compression+socks+men

Have you tried sourcing for venture capitalists or angel investors?

There are always a few who are looking to invest in something that is scalable. Your startup is definitely scalable.

(Learn to build a business: The Strawberry Startup)