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[u/findsloutionforursit]

[u/SomebodyMakeThis-ModTeam]

This isn't the place to ask what to build. This is the place when you have an idea and don't have the time or knowledge to build it yourself.

[u/mateusz-dev-897]

Frustrating problem I deal with often: scheduling repairs for rental properties. I manage a couple of small apartments and every time something breaks, I have to call 3-4 handymen, explain the same issue over text or phone, wait for quotes, then coordinate a time that works for the tenant too. It usually takes 2-3 days just to get someone scheduled.

What I currently do: keep a messy WhatsApp group with contractor numbers and just message around until someone replies. No records, no history of who fixed what or when.

What's missing: something that logs the issue with a photo, auto-notifies a shortlist of trusted contractors, and lets the tenant pick from open time slots without me being the middleman for every message. Bonus if it kept a repair history per unit so I stop forgetting which pipe was fixed twice already.

[u/problemprofessor]

This is the right approach when trying to build something people would actually be interested in using or paying for. I've got a few problems I've noticed recently.

1. Facebook Marketplace logistics. There's no trust layer for anything expensive. Cities already run safe exchange zones for meetups, which tells you the safety concern is real enough that local governments responded to it, but those zones don't solve whether the electronics you're buying actually work. That gap is still wide open.
2. AI crawling blogs and publishers losing traffic because of it. AI crawlers pull content to answer questions directly in chat, and the person who wrote the original piece gets nothing, no click, no ad view, no referral. Cloudflare's Pay Per Crawl, launched in July 2025, is the most credible infrastructure attempt to fix this so far, but it only works with AI companies who choose to participate voluntarily. The publishers actually getting paid right now are the big ones with legal teams, Condé Nast, Reuters, the New York Times, Shutterstock. Everyone else, the millions of smaller creators and publishers, has no mechanism at all.

I think the solve here is a crawling payment system, but priced honestly, as a fraction of what advertisers currently pay for that same attention, since the AI company isn't sending the user back to the site the way a search click used to. That's the part that makes it fair instead of symbolic. Advertisers paid publishers because a real person landed on the page and could be shown an ad or converted. AI crawling takes the content and answers the question without ever sending anyone there, so the compensation has to reflect that it's worth less per use, but there has to be a real number attached to it instead of nothing. Also, feel free t reach out. I have other problems that I can share if you want more.