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.
34 opportunities
Desktop users lack text tools that work across apps
For desktop users who write across multiple apps
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
People struggle to turn spoken audio into reliable, usable text
For researchers, journalists, and privacy-conscious people who work with spoken audio
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
Screenshot users switch tools to crop and revise captures
For desktop screenshot users
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
People find accurate work-time tracking too tedious to maintain
For developers, tech workers, and self-directed learners who need time records
Obsidian users lack reliable project views over their Markdown notes
For obsidian users managing projects in Markdown
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
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
Obsidian users lack reusable inline computed properties
For obsidian power users and personal-knowledge-base maintainers
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
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
People struggle to spot meaningful changes across web pages
For people who monitor web pages for updates