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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For me it started with frustration more than inspiration.
I felt like modern workflows were becoming cognitively exhausting: notes in one place, tasks somewhere else, documents everywhere, constant tab switching, AI tools disconnected from actual execution.
The more “productive” my stack became, the more fragmented my thinking felt.
That eventually pushed me toward building a cognitive workspace instead of another isolated productivity tool.
I became obsessed with the idea that software should reduce mental overhead — not create more of it.
Hi, Personally, I’m motivated by designing products that offer solutions tailored to my own vision of things. I especially enjoy the 'product creation' phase because that's where an entrepreneur's or designer true creativity shines through. By the way, your website looks beautiful, I really like the font choice! :)
@giuseppemessina ahh thanks, glad you liked it! Go ahead try it out as well!
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I like hearing when people build from passion, so thanks for sharing. For me, I'm building you x you i because I wanted to 'productise' my skillset... providing user experience services to small and medium businesses. I worked with many of SMBs all over the world and across many industries, but as a one person, there are only so many people I can work with. I loved the feedback I received, I loved seeing the changes, I loved hearing people repeat back to me what they've learnt... and I wanted to make that accessible to more people.
I think the strongest motivation comes when you genuinely want the product to exist for yourself first.
Around Turgo workflows, many ideas came from repeatedly facing the same execution and coordination problems until automating them became the obvious next step. Those small frustrations usually end up revealing much bigger opportunities.
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A mixture of wanting to make money myself but also - not a sales talk - a genuine desire to help people with money issues. I'm launching Gigi Money next week, a personal finance app that goes beyond the regular budgeting and in stead focuses on the future and future desires. I've been a personal finance podcast host and author for years in my country, Belgium, and it still amazes/frustrates me how hard it is for most people to combine short term budgeting with long term goals. For years I've looked for an app that could possibly fix this. I never found one, and thanks to AI I was able to make one myself. Well at least, that's the goal : )
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My motivation is simple. I got ripped off one too many times by marketing gurus at times when I couldn't afford it. Always upsold, never delivered. That anger became the fuel.
But underneath that is something bigger. I was given two years to live if I didn't sort myself out from a functioning addict rapidly becoming completely unfunctional. Lost my daughter to cancer. I came back from rehab in Indonesia with one question: what was I always meant to be?
A creator. Someone who builds things that genuinely help people.
Red Flag AI Pro is the answer. Launching Tuesday on Product Hunt. Would love your support.
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Same story — I needed a workspace where my notes could actually do things, not just store text. Couldn't find it, built it. That itch-scratching motivation is the most sustainable kind.
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For me it started with frustration more than inspiration.
I felt like modern workflows were becoming cognitively exhausting: notes in one place, tasks somewhere else, documents everywhere, constant tab switching, AI tools disconnected from actual execution.
The more “productive” my stack became, the more fragmented my thinking felt.
That eventually pushed me toward building a cognitive workspace instead of another isolated productivity tool.
I became obsessed with the idea that software should reduce mental overhead — not create more of it.
Bitgrain
@dandrea8 : )
Hi, Personally, I’m motivated by designing products that offer solutions tailored to my own vision of things. I especially enjoy the 'product creation' phase because that's where an entrepreneur's or designer true creativity shines through. By the way, your website looks beautiful, I really like the font choice! :)
Bitgrain
@giuseppemessina ahh thanks, glad you liked it! Go ahead try it out as well!
I like hearing when people build from passion, so thanks for sharing. For me, I'm building you x you i because I wanted to 'productise' my skillset... providing user experience services to small and medium businesses. I worked with many of SMBs all over the world and across many industries, but as a one person, there are only so many people I can work with. I loved the feedback I received, I loved seeing the changes, I loved hearing people repeat back to me what they've learnt... and I wanted to make that accessible to more people.
Bitgrain
@you_x_you_i nicee!
Simply, by just seeing a problem that nobody tried to solve in a creative way. I always see people try to complicate things that should be easy.
Bitgrain
@ayhamr yes, that's the best approach!
I think the strongest motivation comes when you genuinely want the product to exist for yourself first.
Around Turgo workflows, many ideas came from repeatedly facing the same execution and coordination problems until automating them became the obvious next step. Those small frustrations usually end up revealing much bigger opportunities.
A mixture of wanting to make money myself but also - not a sales talk - a genuine desire to help people with money issues. I'm launching Gigi Money next week, a personal finance app that goes beyond the regular budgeting and in stead focuses on the future and future desires.
I've been a personal finance podcast host and author for years in my country, Belgium, and it still amazes/frustrates me how hard it is for most people to combine short term budgeting with long term goals. For years I've looked for an app that could possibly fix this. I never found one, and thanks to AI I was able to make one myself. Well at least, that's the goal : )
My motivation is simple. I got ripped off one too many times by marketing gurus at times when I couldn't afford it. Always upsold, never delivered. That anger became the fuel.
But underneath that is something bigger. I was given two years to live if I didn't sort myself out from a functioning addict rapidly becoming completely unfunctional. Lost my daughter to cancer. I came back from rehab in Indonesia with one question: what was I always meant to be?
A creator. Someone who builds things that genuinely help people.
Red Flag AI Pro is the answer. Launching Tuesday on Product Hunt. Would love your support.
Same story — I needed a workspace where my notes could actually do things, not just store text. Couldn't find it, built it. That itch-scratching motivation is the most sustainable kind.