Shane Collins

Hi everyone. I'm Shane, part of the small team behind Xingge, an app for Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology), a Chinese chart system built from your birth date and hour.

We read charts from the classical source text, the Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, and explain each line in plain English. The free chart needs no sign-in: https://xingge.tw/en/chart?utm_s...

I'm here to learn from other makers, especially in astrology, wellness and AI. We're planning our first launch here next month. If you've launched a niche consumer app on PH, what would you do differently?

We re all builders here, which usually means at some point we looked at something clunky, slow, or frustrating and thought, there has to be a better way. Most products don t start with a grand vision; they start with irritation, curiosity, or firsthand pain.

I d love to learn more about how others here have navigated that journey:

How did you uncover the problem you decided to work on?
What signals told you this problem was worth solving?
How did you validate (if at all) whether people would actually pay for a solution?
Has your product stayed true to the original problem, or did it evolve into something different?
What surprised you the most along the way?