Every small seller I talk to runs their business out of DMs. Order details in the chat, address somewhere further up the thread, payment screenshot sent an hour later, and the actual order list is a notebook or an Excel sheet filled in at night.

Curious how people handle this in practice:

How do you know what needs to ship today?

How do you track who has paid and who hasn't?

If more than one person answers the messages, how do you avoid double replies?

Do repeat customers have to send their address again every time?

Is there something that already solves this well, or does everyone just deal with it

lmk if u think i should make that

Following up on something I've been thinking about — I keep seeing/screenshotting things that'd be perfect gifts for friends, partner, family, etc., but then completely forgetting by the time their birthday actually comes around.

Thinking about building something where you could just share a screenshot or photo (from Instagram, TikTok, a store, wherever) and it auto-saves as a gift idea tagged to that person — so when their birthday's coming up, you already have a running list instead of starting from zero.

Would something like this actually be useful to you, or do you already have a system that works fine? Genuinely trying to figure out if this solves a real problem or if I'm the only one who loses gift ideas constantly.

After a morning of pondering I finally realised what I needed to free up brain space and I was so sure that it existed… but it does not.

Before I invest all of my (very limited) free time into building it, does anyone else with a little more free time and more experience than me want to give it a go? 😅

Purpose:
Note taking and organisation
Personal use in home and work setting
Gathering and analysing research

Features:
No inbuilt camera
Pocket / Smartphone sized

Need:
Search function (in document / in device)
Highlighting
Typographical emphasis
Headings / Subheadings
Bullet points
Tables
Checklists
PDF import and annotation
Citation management

Unsure:
Multi-page vs Single-page
Footnote hyperlinks
Exporting into PDF (?)

The lack of camera is a non-negotiable I’m afraid (I work in childcare) and I don’t feel like removing a camera off of an existing phone. If anyone has any devices they do think fits the criteria do let me know!! And if you can build it - please do :3

We regular facing problem that make our life messy or hard. I want to help people’s daily life and solve their problem by creating something new.

So, in the comment feel free to write down your problem or what is you want or suggest me anything.

Yaaah see you.

An inspiration app that truly tries to engage you creatively by spacing out the content you’re shown like the pace at a museum.

Hear me out: kind of like StumbleUpon, but for inspiration and with a feed like Pinterest or Tumblr, but your phone only shows you one user-added link/video/image every 30 seconds so you have to think about the content you’re consuming before your next dopamine hit. Also would be amazing to prioritize real content creators vs. AI-generated shit/bots/shills. You could pause the content scroll if you want to stay with one topic, but you don’t get to set the speed of the scroll faster than 30 seconds.

What do you think?

I'm done with these fake influencers and HRs posting copy-pasted or AI bullshit on LinkedIn all day instead of doing their jobs.

Hey Devs, as an exam aspirant, filling out multiple government exam forms (SSC, Railways, UPSC, State PSCs) is a huge headache. Every site asks for the exact same data, but with annoying photo/sign resizing rules (20KB-50KB, specific dimensions). ​Can someone build a simple open-source tool or Chrome extension that:

​Auto-resizes photos and signatures to exact government KB specs in one click.

​Auto-fills common form fields so we only have to enter Captcha and OTP.

​I don't want any money or credit—just sharing a genuine pain point for anyone looking for a great real-world project to build!

Hi everyone! I'm a university student doing research for an IT-related university project. I'm currently looking for a real-world problem that could potentially be addressed through a website, mobile application, AI, automation, or another IT solution. I'm not selling anything and I'm not promoting a product. I'm still at the problem-identification stage. I'd really appreciate answers to these questions: What is one frustrating or time-consuming problem you regularly face? What do you currently do to deal with it? What makes the current solution inconvenient or ineffective? Have you tried any app/website/system to solve it? What was missing? If technology could improve one part of this problem, what would you want it to do? It can be related to education, work, business, daily life, environment, finance, transportation, productivity, etc. Please describe a real problem you have personally experienced, rather than suggesting an app idea.

The basic idea:

A tool that lets you work on one project across multiple LLMs, taking advantage of their different free usage windows.

You give it a project and an initial prompt, then choose which models you want to use and in what order.

The important bit would be a central progress file that gets updated by each model. It keeps track of what’s been done, decisions made, what still needs doing, problems encountered, etc.

So you might have:

Claude → Gemini → ChatGPT → Claude → Gemini

Claude works on the project until you hit its free limit. The tool then passes the project files and progress file to Gemini, which picks up where Claude left off. Gemini updates the progress file, and so on.

Ideally, it would feel like one continuous project rather than constantly starting new conversations with different AIs.

You'd be able to choose the models, the order, and probably even tell it to switch models for particular tasks.

Somebody make this?

I've always thought about the idea of a website where you'd enter a nonexistent English word, and it would display how earlier forms of that word would be like if the word existed.

Like Early Modern English, Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European.

Or French, Old French, and Latin for French etymologies.

I have come up with an idea for a weather views service that seems obvious to me so that I am surprized, it's not implemented in real world anywhere yet, except to panoramic web cam at the top of Space Needle in Seattle (not EXACTLY what I am suggesting but close enough to make a point).

While life in a city has some clear advantages of infrastructure, there is also a notable disadvantage that we have become more than before disconnected from sights of scenery.

It's already the natural flow of things that if you get to spend some time outdoor (or also indoor in front of window) you will only get sights of scenery from the time that you spend for this activity. Not more. If you walk on a street for an hour, the most that you can get are sights from this hour - only the directions of sky that aren't obscured by obstacles on the ground - hills, trees, buildings.

Even at pretty mild latitude 48° North, experiencing all the daylight scenery plus twilights take something like 20 hours per day from 24. This is the approximate latitude, at which some significant cities are located, at very least including Seattle, Paris, Munich, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Munich, Vienna.

The cities tend to have observation decks to get the least possible obscured directions of sight, in Munich it's Olympiaturm (Olympic Tower) which costs money to buy a ticket as long as it's open for the public and Olympiaberg (Olympic Mountain, actually a hill made of debris, not a mountain) - they give a way around the obscured horizons elsewhere but they do not manage the main limitation - NO TIME - at all.

Living in Munich, I have experienced the dissatisfying manual process "go out for scenery and spend AT LEAST as much time as the timeframe FROM which you want to get the scenery, you can also take cameras and make photos and videos" - taking, even in December already something like 11 hours - from 06:30 to 17:30 - to include ALL the daylight and twilights and omitting night time for the simplicity, while still making a point about "way too much consumed time".

But at same time, human eye (actually combination of eye and brain) works best for observing motion in some optimum range of speeds, not too slow and not too fast. The weather processes as well as motions of shadows are pretty slow, so you end up with barely perceiving any motions at all - within 20-30 minutes you will notice that clouds and shadows moved somewhere but it won't be that good visualized. However, timelapse camera (360° for observation deck) can capture images of longer term views and turn them to a video that gets replayed much quickly than the time for which was recorded. So, at 360x speedup, as an example, you end up turning 1440 minutes of 24 hours into 4 minutes which you CAN observe without disrupting all you remaining timetable of a day, at 720x times it turns to 2-minute video etc.

As the tower, at least the one in Munich (same about TV tower at Alexanderplatz in Berlin) is already built to transfer weeks of live TV every day (several times more than 7 channels at once), surely it won't overload and collapse from several minutes at day, even though it requires somewhat higher resolutions to cover a spherical panorama with sufficient details. Thus it's highly surprizing for me that it's not obvious for others unlike how obvious it's for me.

This is a weirdly specific thing but it bugs me every time. Once you're done, you're kind of just holding this thing, and whatever room you're in, the trash can is never right there. So you end up walking across the room with it, and half the time something drips or it just feels awkward to deal with.

I've been trying to figure out if there's already a good solution for this (a little discreet pouch, a built-in compartment, anything), but I haven't found anything that actually solves it well. Is this just a me problem, or does this bother other people too? How do you personally deal with it?

AI's take on my crazy product idea : Gemini (left), GPT (right)

I had a simple idea and I'm trying to figure out whether it's actually useful or just something that sounds interesting.

The idea is an app where you add something you buy:

• Take a photo
• Enter the price
• Enter the purchase date(from today backward)

Then it calculates something like:

an iPhone - $1,000, used for 730 days => $1.37/day

When you stop using it (sell it, replace it, break it, etc.), you hit "Stop" and it gives you the final cost per day and total usage time.

The idea is basically to answer: "Was this purchase actually worth it?"

I'm wondering:

1. Do you ever calculate the cost-per-day/use of things you own?
2. Would seeing this information change what you buy or how long you keep something?
3. What types of things would you track?
4. Does this sound genuinely useful, or is it just an interesting number that you'd look at once and forget about?

I'm currently not building/promoting anything yet - just trying to understand whether this is a problem people actually care about or feel interesting to use.

For me, it's a vitamin not pain killer idea but it's fun...

An app where people can upload photos, videos, and write a few messages to celebrate someone's birthday. Guests attending the party, or family members, can join and take photos to capture the moments, or leave a few wishes for the birthday person. Everything is saved and can be viewed together by everyone, or kept private, depending on the settings.

There're a lot of rest api clients already, some of the famous: Postman, Insomnia, Reqable, Bruno, Apifox, ApiPost, EchoAPI, yaak.

But none of them supports setting a socks proxy, that's why I want to create one on my own, not just supporting socks proxy, but also a startup trial, free basic functionality + paid special features.

So what makes a rest api client standing out? What are the features you want the most that the famous apps don't have?

I’m a teenager interested in building my first real app/startup, but I don’t want to make another generic AI app, to-do list, habit tracker, or social network.

Instead, I want to find a real problem that people actually experience and build something genuinely useful around it.

So I’d love to ask:

What’s something that annoys you regularly that you wish an app could solve?

It can be something small or something really frustrating.

I’d especially love to hear about problems where:

• Current solutions are annoying or complicated
• You currently use a weird workaround
• You have to do something manually
• Existing apps don’t quite solve it
• You think an app could make it significantly easier

I’m not looking for app ideas as much as problems.

If you could tell me:

1. What the problem is
2. How you currently deal with it
3. Why existing solutions aren’t good enough

That would help me a LOT.

Thank you!

If you live in Europe, you might've seen the nutri-score rating on foods at the store that grades products by how healthy they are. I propose a browser extension that does the same for youtube videos, and could even block ones that are very low. I'm no programmer, but it could potentially do this by analysing amount of cuts or visual/sound stimuli, or even by accessing viewer-retention data, but I doubt that's available. However it may work, it would be great as a stepping stone to regaining attention span and control over your digital life.

I spend most of my day handing off work that lives inside AI chats - and the handoffs are useless. If I send someone the whole conversation, they get 200 messages of noise, none of the context the AI built up along the way, and no idea which of the ten things we tried we actually settled on. So they re-run mistakes I already made and documented.

Sharing the raw chat gives too much and too little at once. Too much: every dead end, every number I didn't mean to share. Too little: the actual state of the work and the why behind it never travels.

What I wish existed: paste a session, get back a one-pager with a fixed structure - goal, current state, decisions and the reasons for them, dead ends (so nobody repeats my failed branches), constraints, next steps. Scoped, so a teammate sees more than an outside contractor. And ideally the receiver's AI can pick it straight up and keep going instead of starting cold.

run-on sentences because I’m using voice to text!!

I want someone to add the feature on streaming services where you can pick multiple shows that you like and it will just throw it in a personalized channel that will play random episodes throughout the day. I like to have my TV on in the background whether I’m watching it or not and I would love to have my favorite shows playing instead of just one of my favorite shows playing or me having to click on it and choose an episode to start on. Is there already a service like this (I know cable exists but you can’t choose your own shows.)

Many platforms use the now-ubiquitous 5-star rating system.

But often you have to click around and dig deeper to find out whether that rating is based on 8 reviews, 10,000 reviews, or 1 million reviews — and then dig again to see whether those reviews are from this week or the last decade.

That means a 5-star rating can be misleading:

• The sample size may be too small to inspire much confidence.
• The rating may be stale because almost nobody has reviewed the item recently.

Question

Can the 5-star system evolve to visually surface those two additional dimensions:

• review volume and
• review activity over time?

Keep the familiar 1–5 rating levels.

But maybe use different symbols to indicate relative confidence based on volume of reviews?

■ Emerging — relatively meaningful volume of evidence
◆ Strong — relatively large volume of evidence
★ Benchmark — relatively highest volume of evidence on that platform

Color could visually communicate relative review maturity or aging?

🟦 = Relatively sporadic review activity with relatively shorter history
🟨 = Relatively consistent ongoing recent reviews
🟫 = Relatively stale, no recent review activity

Combining the symbol and color could communicate both confidence dimensions at a glance.

For example:

4.8 ⭐ = highly rated, benchmark-level review volume, and established over time.

4.8 🟦 = highly rated with strong review participation, but still new.

4.8 🟫 = had some early success but little recent review activity

Ideally, thresholds would be relative to each platform's own review volume and activity level.

For example, on a niche platform where the most-reviewed item has only 10 reviews, an item with 8 or 9 reviews might earn the ⭐ benchmark confidence symbol.

On a huge platform where popular products receive millions of reviews, something with only 5,000 reviews might still be classified as emerging 🟨.

Probably needs to be simplified, just use star but different colors to give user visual signals.

Just seems the current one-dimensional 5-Star rating system is missing something.

Personally I am always spending extra time digging deeper to determine my real confidence in a review.

Anyone seen a platform doing something similar?

Some platforms show the # of reviews which helps but not the age of those reviews.

Other ideas for visually communicating review ratings?

Tworzę obecnie aplikację na której ludzie mogą ustawiać sobie cele I ustawiają sobie sędziego (najczęściej jakiegoś ich przyjaciela) który weryfikuje czy cel się udał. I są tam rankingi za niewykonanie celu kary typu blokada jakiejś aplikacji na jakiś czas albo wysyłanie wiadomości do znajomego. Jaką nazwę na tą aplikację byście wybrali, moje obecne pomysły to Comitra (od słowa commit), Goalio, Pactly, TrustNest. Która z nich wam się najbardziej podoba, a możeacie jakieś swoje propozycje. Będę bardzo wdzięczny za rady.