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Productivity · Consumers6.3

Mac users struggle to control windows across displays

For mac power users with multiple displays

14 people · 13 threads
Personal life · Consumers6.0

Viewers can't reliably filter unwanted videos from their feeds

For youTube viewers and parents

+97 people · 83 threads
Would pay
Developer tools · B2B6.0

Developers struggle to tell which vulnerability alerts need action

For software maintainers and small security teams

20 people · 20 threads
Developer tools · Pros5.8

Frontend developers lose time inspecting and tweaking rendered CSS

For frontend developers and web designers

11 people · 8 threads
Developer tools · B2B5.8

Self-hosters miss urgent alerts or get flooded with noisy ones

For self-hosters and small infrastructure operators

13 people · 10 threads
Developer tools · B2B5.8

Developers struggle to keep website data extraction reliable

For developers and small data teams building recurring web-data pipelines

+40 people · 39 threads
Other · Consumers5.8

Home Assistant backups are hard to store, verify, and restore

For home Assistant users managing their own installations

31 people · 16 threads
Other · B2B5.8

Occasional readers can't buy individual paywalled articles

For occasional online news and magazine readers

+90 people · 83 threads
Would payRising
Productivity · Consumers5.7

Large personal document archives are hard to search and organize

For people with large personal and research document archives

+45 people · 43 threads
Productivity · Pros5.7

People struggle to turn spoken audio into reliable, usable text

For researchers, journalists, and privacy-conscious people who work with spoken audio

+94 people · 90 threads
Developer tools · B2B5.5

Software teams struggle to know whether their tests catch real defects

For software developers and QA engineers maintaining automated test suites

+68 people · 67 threads
Communication · Consumers5.4

Social users can't precisely filter unwanted content from feeds

For social and news feed readers seeking selective content filters

20 people · 18 threads
Would pay
Developer tools · Pros5.3

Developers struggle to make safe, repetitive changes across codebases

For developers maintaining multi-file codebases

27 people · 26 threads
Productivity · B2B5.3

Researchers lose research time to grant applications

For academic researchers and grant-writing teams

11 people · 12 threads
Creator tools · Pros5.3

Fans lack flexible ways to pay creators outside ads and subscriptions

For independent creators and their fans

10 people · 10 threads
Would pay
Other · Consumers5.3

Home Assistant users cannot tailor backup policies per destination

For home Assistant self-hosters with multiple backup destinations

17 people · 13 threads
Developer tools · Pros5.2

Developers struggle to review and undo AI-generated code changes

For software engineers reviewing code written by AI agents

+180 people · 166 threads
Developer tools · B2B5.2

Small service operators get noisy, incomplete uptime alerts

For indie site and small-service operators

30 people · 25 threads
Developer tools · B2B5.2

API teams struggle to keep OpenAPI usable across tools

For API developers and platform teams

23 people · 19 threads
Developer tools · Pros5.2

Developers struggle to run coding agents in safe, reusable sandboxes

For AI-assisted software developers

23 people · 22 threads
Productivity · Consumers5.2

AI assistants flatter users instead of answering plainly

For AI assistant users seeking candid, dependable answers

+36 people · 35 threads
Would pay
Developer tools · Pros5.1

Technical users struggle to get reliable answers from documentation

For software developers and technical users

+40 people · 39 threads
Developer tools · Pros5.1

Developers hit rough edges using DevContainers across tools

For developers who work in DevContainers

27 people · 15 threads
HR & recruiting · Consumers5.0

Job seekers lose hours to fragmented, repetitive applications

For active job seekers, especially software engineers applying across ATS portals

+43 people · 40 threads