Productivity
Follow Productivity weekly with ProProblems that at least three different people described in public discussions. Open one to see what they said, how it scores and what you could build.
25 opportunities
Mac users struggle to control windows across displays
For mac power users with multiple displays
Large personal document archives are hard to search and organize
For people with large personal and research document archives
Desktop users struggle to make window layouts fit their workflow
For power users who juggle many desktop windows
Readers struggle to follow web content in one calm, user-controlled place
For RSS-first readers and independent news consumers
People lose ideas when capturing notes on the go is too slow
For mobile-first note takers and writers
Saved links get trapped in rigid folders and scattered lists
For people who save lots of links and posts for later
Obsidian users lack reliable project views over their Markdown notes
For obsidian users managing projects in Markdown
People lose access to chat histories across apps and workspaces
For AI-chat users, developers, and messaging-app users
Obsidian users struggle to keep image-heavy vaults small
For obsidian users with image-heavy vaults
Drivers lack reliable, car-friendly ways to listen to reading material
For drivers who listen to articles, documents, summaries, and audiobooks
Obsidian users lack reusable inline computed properties
For obsidian power users and personal-knowledge-base maintainers
Users struggle to copy, verify, and recover text
For desktop and web users who frequently copy text
Multilingual users repeatedly reset language preferences across websites
For multilingual internet users
People lose track of personal tasks and struggle to follow through
For people managing personal tasks and recurring routines
People lose time finding, editing, and reusing clipboard content
For desktop users who frequently move text between apps
Note-takers struggle to search and navigate their own notes
For markdown note-takers
People struggle to access two-factor codes without their phone
For desktop-first workers and phone-constrained account holders
People lose drafts and their place after web pages refresh
For social-media users and newsletter writers
Whiteboard users struggle to organize and reuse visual work
For casual diagram users and whiteboard-based outline writers
Obsidian Bases users manually template and tag new notes
For obsidian Bases users who create structured notes
People manually fix capitalization across text workflows
For people who write or edit text across multiple apps
Mac users lack context-based control over menu bar icons
For mac users who customize their menu bars
File sync tools miss important folder and workflow needs
For people who rely on cross-device file sync
Digital readers lose context, notes, and control of reading progress
For digital book and article readers