What motivates you to build your product? For me with @Bitgrain, it's my passion for creating with graphics. I needed a tool to make grunge posters myself, so I built one, and figured, why not share it with everyone else? What's yours ??
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I love the "scratching my own itch" approach—do you find you're own toughest user?
@grayson_butler1 ofc, every day I spend a considerable amount of time on using my own product, whenever i feel a friction while using, well, that's something I usually work on again until that friction is gone!
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@diptanshu_mahish Did you always have that grunge aesthetic in mind or did it start out as something cleaner?
@matilda_hazel well, yes there are too many design tools, for sure. I did a deep analysis for all and found out they were all going towards three major categories 1. The AI race. 2. Two difficult to use. 3. Too expensive.
I found out there is a huge chunk of people who don't specifically love too much AI built stuff, so my audience, and again all tools that I saw are a mix of point 2 or 3, so that's what made me feel that there is a very narrow and specific market gap. That's how @Bitgrain was born, initially I too felt that it will be "just another design tool" but somehow it gained quite a traction!
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Honestly, the best motivation is usually solving something you personally wanted to exist. A lot of strong products start from “I built this for myself first and then realized other needed it too.
@uriah_david@uriah_david Well If you go to @Bitgrain Studio you will find quite a lot of other stuff already available, such as invite cards, social media posts, Certificates and so much more!
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I’m working on a piano learning app. For me, the motivation was seeing how many people start learning piano with excitement, then quit because practice feels frustrating or hard to stay consistent with. We wanted to make piano learning feel more approachable, fun, and habit-forming.
@hoanganalyst97 yes, I myself learnt piano the hard way haha, curious to see how this app solves it!
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Its to solve my daily marketing needs as well as my clients. The tracking of campaign data, analytics, the manual churn of content and etc is really too time consuming
@roy_kek yes that's a real problem, how does your tool solve that?
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I kept reptiles for years and tracked everything in spreadsheets. Eventually I just built the app I wanted to exist. The motivation is still the same: I'm the target user, so I know exactly what's missing.
@imad_elkhafi That's the best, being the target user, gives you a full sense of what's needed.
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@diptanshu_mahish Exactly no guessing what users want when you are the user. The hard part is remembering that not every user is you as you scale.
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Building the tool you actually wanted to use is the purest form of 'Founder-Product Fit.' My motivation usually comes from that 'itch'—seeing a workflow that’s 2 steps too long and refusing to sleep until it’s 1 step. Grunge posters are a niche vibe, love that you're leaning into it!
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I love the "scratching my own itch" approach—do you find you're own toughest user?
Bitgrain
@grayson_butler1 ofc, every day I spend a considerable amount of time on using my own product, whenever i feel a friction while using, well, that's something I usually work on again until that friction is gone!
@diptanshu_mahish Did you always have that grunge aesthetic in mind or did it start out as something cleaner?
Bitgrain
@naomi_ford Well I love a bit of extremes, hence I love both, the grunge aesthetic and minimal. Btw Bitgrain does with both now : )
@diptanshu_mahish Did you ever feel like the market was too crowded with design tools, or did you just not care?
Bitgrain
@matilda_hazel well, yes there are too many design tools, for sure. I did a deep analysis for all and found out they were all going towards three major categories
1. The AI race.
2. Two difficult to use.
3. Too expensive.
I found out there is a huge chunk of people who don't specifically love too much AI built stuff, so my audience, and again all tools that I saw are a mix of point 2 or 3, so that's what made me feel that there is a very narrow and specific market gap. That's how @Bitgrain was born, initially I too felt that it will be "just another design tool" but somehow it gained quite a traction!
Honestly, the best motivation is usually solving something you personally wanted to exist. A lot of strong products start from “I built this for myself first and then realized other needed it too.
Bitgrain
@david_richard35 EXACTLY.
Honestly just being tired of opening apps without even meaning to 😭
I’d start focusing, switch apps “for one second,” then suddenly the session was gone.
Most focus apps just count time.
I wanted something that reacts when your attention starts slipping.
That eventually turned into @Cognifocus
Bitgrain
@qasim_khan23 All the best for the launch man!
@diptanshu_mahish Best wishes to u too buddy, Thanks :)
Do you think you'll keep it focused on posters or expand into other types of graphic design?
Bitgrain
@uriah_david @uriah_david Well If you go to @Bitgrain Studio you will find quite a lot of other stuff already available, such as invite cards, social media posts, Certificates and so much more!
I’m working on a piano learning app. For me, the motivation was seeing how many people start learning piano with excitement, then quit because practice feels frustrating or hard to stay consistent with. We wanted to make piano learning feel more approachable, fun, and habit-forming.
Bitgrain
@hoanganalyst97 yes, I myself learnt piano the hard way haha, curious to see how this app solves it!
Its to solve my daily marketing needs as well as my clients. The tracking of campaign data, analytics, the manual churn of content and etc is really too time consuming
Bitgrain
@roy_kek yes that's a real problem, how does your tool solve that?
I kept reptiles for years and tracked everything in spreadsheets. Eventually I just built the app I wanted to exist. The motivation is still the same: I'm the target user, so I know exactly what's missing.
Bitgrain
@imad_elkhafi That's the best, being the target user, gives you a full sense of what's needed.
@diptanshu_mahish Exactly no guessing what users want when you are the user. The hard part is remembering that not every user is you as you scale.
Building the tool you actually wanted to use is the purest form of 'Founder-Product Fit.' My motivation usually comes from that 'itch'—seeing a workflow that’s 2 steps too long and refusing to sleep until it’s 1 step. Grunge posters are a niche vibe, love that you're leaning into it!
Bitgrain
@rivra_dev haha :)