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Where and how did you come up with the idea of your startup?

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I am far from a shopaholic, but recently I realised that I spend too many hours on online shopping in order to buy ordinary casual clothes. So, I decided to create a smart shopping assistant which helps to buy branded clothes cheaply and save time.
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Kirill Tupikov
The idea must be sought in the pains and needs of the people around, no matter how trite it may sound. I watched my girlfriend, how much time and money she spends on visiting a beautician, she was very annoyed (so my friends and I decided to help her somehow) we made a prototype with augmented reality on Instagram, tested it, received more than 100 profiles with positive reviews. It became clear that this could work) So we founded forYou - a beautician in your smartphone
Di
@kirill_tupikov wow wow wow! how does it work? Share the product
Kirill Tupikov
Kate Dalessi
Ideas are easy, they come in 1$ per kilo:) What to do with the idea is a bigger question IMHO:) To turn an idea into a startup the minimum requirement is to take it through the idea validation funnel; and the funnel depends on your starting point: connections, SM audience, specifics of your idea, etc...
Di
@katyaveremeichik I agree with you. The idea is really free $. My question was, under what situation did this happen? What kind of pain did you see in the market?
Kate Dalessi
@mironshe in our case the clients were requesting one thing over and over, and we decided to make it) the pain was the complexity of excisting approval solutions. For just one small feature - like exporting a .csv r an .xlxs of access approval history fro complience - they had to purchace heavy expensive software they have no other use for
Di
@katyaveremeichik cool! You saw the client's pain and were able to solve it, I love such cases!
Marie Nodet
We realized that marketers are always overwhelmed, trying to get leads everywhere. And still, most B2B businesses don’t convert more than 2% of their website visitors. Stacking Google Analytics + a form plugin + an emailing software doesn’t answer the problem: it’s complicated to know what leads are doing, how they came, and what marketing campaign worked. Lots of products exist, but they either cost a lot of money or need hard work and custom integrations to get the big picture about lead acquisition. That’s why we’ve created Plezi One : a freemium tool to analyze your website performance and make the most of your content strategy : leverage your website to increase conversion rate and get valuable information about your leads. PS : Today is the big launch day ! We are third 🚀 If you want to support us, it would be very appreciated !
Di
@marie_nodet I can't understand why GA doesn't solve the problem above? and I definitely want to be your client!
Kasper Kerem
I am a data guy especially the location and behavioural analytics. I have been working on the topic for the past 17 years and have seen all issues in and out. Many recurring and expensive, so we built a (location) data analytics for mobile phones and IoT devices that scale and focus on privacy - making it simpler and affordable for our customers
Di
@kasper_kerem wow, great! Who are your clients?
Kasper Kerem
@mironshe current focus is on the apps where location is not the main business, but secondary. Travel and delivery mainly
Aliaksandr Kandratsiuk
@kasper_kerem Wow cool idea)
Sunil Khedar
The most number of ideas originate when we see gaps in the market and the pain points that we feel while using a service. How to bring your idea to life is a completely different question.
Di
@sunilkhedar84 if the market really has a pain or a problem, then there will definitely be a solution
Sunil Khedar
@mironshe Solutions are not always there. Covid has shown us how people came up with new solutions to fulfil the changed market conditions.
Ebba Cronqvist
Sounds like a really cool product. I can relate - I'm completely hopeless at both online and real-life shopping, still spend a lot of time doing it 😅 When it comes to my own idea; I love remote work, I think it's an absolute life upgrade, but I miss bouncing ideas, thinking out loud, and casually connecting with my coworkers. Realized that I always started conversations by asking if people were available if I could disturb them, and checking their calendars(which is wayyy too tedious that I wouldn't do it too often). Whereas in an office, I would just look around and talk to whoever was free/not focused. So right now I'm working on a really simple tool making availability more visible for my team, as well as other hybrid product teams.
Di
@ebbacronqvist I really wondered what you were doing. Let me know when you are done with the product, I will your beta tester =))
Ebba Cronqvist
@mironshe Awesome, will do for sure! And likewise!!
Rehan Choudhry
Chptr
My wife is a news anchor and was creating :60 video tributes for each of the first NYC Covid victims. We were in quarantine and I had a front row seat to the entire process. Hearing the pain that each person she interviewed was facing served as not only inspiration, but also a reminder of the pain I personally went through after facing losses. It sent me down a rabbit hole of research and testing until Chptr was born.
Di
@rehan_choudhry1 unfortunately, not all products come from something good. What does your product do? Why is it needed?
Marie
I spend my time looking up the 'whys' of trends. Who started it, where did it spin off to, how long did it take to take off? I know it sounds strange but it made me really want to dive in and then eventually sparked me thinking... someone may want this data!
Di
@marie_wff Hmm, why are you doing this? what is the final goal?
Marie
@mironshe For me it is just an interest I have had for a long time. Literally looking at the stats. When I realized no such site exists, I began building willfansfollow (dot) com. Not much to look at for now and experimenting. Not sure if I have an end goal in mind atm.
Ganesh Chavan
Great idea, But startup ideas must be like that they help in solving people's daily needs.
Di
@ganesh_chavan18 isn't buying clothes an everyday thing?
Ganesh Chavan
@mironshe It's a great idea, but if there are already big competitors in the market, you should have excellent planning and be unique and exciting.
Irete Hamdani
I like to say that I didn't found my startup, my startup found me. I am my own consumer. I was looking to lead a more sustainable lifestyle and found how hard it was to find reliably sustainable products online. That's how askBelynda came to be. I launched on PH today, check it out! https://www.producthunt.com/post...
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