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.
68 opportunities
Writers struggle to spell and type accurately across languages
For multilingual writers and people who struggle with spelling
Busy adults lose focus managing work, home tasks, and transitions
For busy adults balancing work and personal responsibilities
People struggle to control Do Not Disturb reliably
For android and Mac users
Screenshot-based work is tedious to assemble, annotate, and share
For people who create or review screenshot-based instructions and evidence
People lose access to chat histories across apps and workspaces
For AI-chat users, developers, and messaging-app users
Obsidian users can’t use formulas flexibly in notes
For obsidian users with formula-heavy notes
Form responses are hard to collect and keep spreadsheet-ready
For researchers, schools, associations, and small teams collecting form responses
Researchers lose time tracing and managing paper citations
For researchers and graduate students reading and writing literature-heavy papers
People lose their workspace when apps restart or tabs change
For developers and power users who work across many windows and tabs
Spreadsheet users get stuck translating calculations into formulas
For spreadsheet users who need occasional custom calculations
Drivers lack reliable, car-friendly ways to listen to reading material
For drivers who listen to articles, documents, summaries, and audiobooks
Readers lose track of fragmented publication subscriptions
For readers of independent journalism and email newsletters
Teams lose useful knowledge across chat and scattered docs
For teams with scattered internal documentation
People struggle to keep browser sessions distinct and predictable
For people who separate browser sessions for work, projects, or accounts
Note users struggle to keep structured data connected to documents
For people building document-centric knowledge systems
Obsidian writers cannot keep note word counts in properties
For obsidian users organizing long-form writing in notes
People struggle to keep unwanted AI out of everyday apps
For people who prefer software without generative AI
Users struggle to copy, verify, and recover text
For desktop and web users who frequently copy text
People lose time finding files across folders and project scopes
For developers and power users managing many local files
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
Teams struggle to delegate and claim tasks in shared lists
For small-team coordinators and group organizers
Project progress and accomplishments are hard to see at a glance
For independent consultants and project-based teams
People struggle to spot meaningful changes across web pages
For people who monitor web pages for updates