My journey in startups began 10 years ago, and I've launched 18 startups, most of which failed. Briefly on why they failed:
1. Contract Online my first startup in 2015, which was supposed to be an online service for remote signing of contracts for any transactions between individuals. A kind of analogue of a secure transaction. For this startup, I even managed to attract a business angel who invested $16,500.

Reason for failure: I had two lawyers on my team who discovered in the process that the legal framework at the time could not provide reliable grounds for protecting our users in remote transactions. The contracts would not have been considered legally signed.
2. Natural Products In 2015-2018, I became very passionate about healthy eating, but in the process, I discovered that products in all chain stores are full of chemicals, and stores with truly natural products are inaccessible to the majority. Hence, the idea emerged to create my own online platform where you could order natural products directly from farmers at affordable prices.

Reason for failure: For several years, I tried to launch this project, even trained as a baker of natural bread and tried to create my own farm, but in the process, I found that few people are willing to pay for truly natural products, even if these products were only 20-30% more expensive than market prices, and not 2-3 times more, as in premium stores. Hence, the market was so small that all my attempts were doomed.

My way is daily walks and regular meetups with someone s orange cat who also loves walking with us

I came to exactly the same conclusion that real startup ideas often come from simple and boring problems. From my own experience: I spent three years on a startup that was supposed to revolutionize online education, but in the end it had 0 users. Now I ve just started solving a simple problem for home appliance repair technicians and immediately got my first paying users on a very rough MVP.

1. A 3-year search for a simple tool to track both personal and business finances in one place. Nothing fits.

2. Website owners constantly need minor edits in the admin panel. They are forced to pay specialists for 5-minute tasks. We need an AI agent that does this on command in the browser.

3. An indie hacker spends 20-30 hours manually cold launching each new product in directories, Reddit, and blogs. There is no tool that fully automates this and proves its effectiveness.

4. A freelancer often loses in proposal competitions due to the inability to quickly create personalized and visual website concepts for each job order.

5. A Telegram channel owner is losing their audience without understanding the reasons for unsubscriptions. There is no simple tool for automatically collecting feedback from departed subscribers.

Hey Product Hunt

1. Real working conditions can't be verified before taking a job reviews lie. Need a service for direct contact with former employees. Willing to pay: 50 100 when I successfully get hired.

2. A gambling addict hasn t been able to quit online casinos for years. All known methods have failed. He has three hypotheses for solving his own problem. Willing to pay $15 30/month.

3. A designer needs an AI agent to eliminate the manual drudgery of adapting designs for mobile/tablet. Willing to pay 20 30 per project.
Boris and Victoria,
ProblemHunt

Hey Product Hunt

1. No simple, affordable credit layer to bridge payment processors with user balances developers rebuild credit tracking, consumption logic, and refunds for every app.

2. For 5 years, goods have been stolen from the office. There is no available service that automatically analyzes camera footage and sends alerts about suspicious activity.

3. Risk of a LinkedIn ban due to false positive bot detection. Official support is unhelpful. Need a tool that warns about suspicious activity to avoid losing 11,500 followers.
Boris,
ProblemHunt

Hey Product Hunt , for the past few months we've been working hard on a new type of publication. We called them Validated Problems .
Validated Problems are problems for which we find at least 20 real people who experience the same issue. We speak with each of them in person and uncover all the details needed to build a startup that is highly likely to be in demand and therefore successful.
Soon we'll publish the first Validated Problem on ProblemHunt.
Best regards,
Boris and Victoria

Friends, thanks to your support, ProblemHunt took 3rd place in the Product of the Day race!

1. The race featured exactly 222 products, including: ChatGPT Atlas by OpenAI, XMind with over 100 million users, the much-talked-about Manus AI, and many other strong competitors. Admittedly, it wasn't easy. But thanks to our close-knit, responsive, and friendly community, we managed to break into the top 3. This genuinely inspires us and gives us energy to actively develop ProblemHunt for you. From the bottom of our hearts thank you to each and every one of you!

We weren't accepted into Y Combinator with our ProblemHunt. But I know a guy who got accepted this time. And he made 11 attempts. We'll try to do that too.