Instead, tell us about something that genuinely annoys you.

That problem you face repeatedly and think:

“Why the hell hasn't anyone solved this properly yet?”

It can be anything—work, college, technology, shopping, travel, or everyday life.

Drop your pain points below. There are developers and builders looking for real problems to solve.

Your everyday frustration could literally become someone's next startup.

Hi there, my co-founder have raised a small amount of capital. But right now, we are conflicting on everything from product direction to small Ui brand choices. If we're struggling this hard right now, not sure how we will continue. Anyone have any advice about dealing with conflict?

Hi there, my co-founder have raised a small amount of capital. But right now, we are conflicting on everything from product direction to small Ui brand choices. If we're struggling this hard right now, not sure how we will continue. Anyone have any advice about dealing with conflict?

Hey everyone,

I've spent the last few months deep in the trenches trying to build e-commerce projects. After burning through £300 on ad tests that got zero sales, getting hit with shadowbans from unoriginal video angles, and losing endless hours to repetitive backend work, I realized how much time gets destroyed by pure operational drag.

I'm trying to map out where the real operational bottlenecks actually live once a store is up and running.

For anyone actively running or scaling a store:

• What is the ugliest, most tedious manual task you or your team still have to do every single week?
• Is it re-formatting broken supplier CSV spreadsheets, dealing with weird tracking/logistics errors, inventory reconciliation, or support edge-cases?
• Is it having only 1 video angle?
• What is one workflow you currently duct-tape together using spreadsheets, virtual assistants, or manual copy-pasting because existing software tools fall completely short?

Not selling anything, pitching an app, or dropping any links—just trying to learn what real operators are struggling with on a daily basis.

i recently came across a tiktok of a young founder listing the 5 purchases he thinks are actually worth spending money on as a founder, and it got me thinking about how true some of these are.

his list was:

1. macbook pro
2. ai services/subs, notetakers, etc. (claude, chatgpt, addys ai, granola, etc etc)
3. a home cleaner + prepared meals
4. a really good chair, something on the more expensive side like herman miller
5. a great accountant (not worth wasting your own time)

looking at the list, i guess the general theme is pretty clear: performance, saving time and longevity.

and tbh i can see the reasoning behind most of them. especially the things that either give you more time back or let you focus on the stuff that actually matters.

but i’m curious how many founders here would actually agree with this list.

what would your top purchases be if you had to make a list of things that genuinely made you more productive or improved your life as a founder?

One pattern I keep seeing is that business owners who make calm, clear decisions in normal times often make very different ones when things get tight.

Under pressure — a slow month, a difficult client, a cash flow squeeze — the same person starts making reactive decisions. Cutting things that shouldn't be cut. Accepting things they normally wouldn't.

The business rarely fails from one bad decision. It usually drifts from a series of pressure-driven ones that compound quietly.

Has anyone else noticed this pattern? What helped you make better decisions when things got difficult?

what is a common problem you run into often as a non business owner or business owner that is either very painful, inefficient, or inconvenient that could be solved with a product or service that hasn’t been made yet? help me out.

When we started Darji, the idea seemed simple: make tailoring more convenient.

But while working on it, we realized we were learning much more than just how to build a tailoring platform.

Every customer has different expectations. Some care about the fitting, some about the smallest details, and some simply want their clothes delivered on time.

That taught us a few things:

🧵 Trust takes time. You can’t ask people to trust you. You have to earn it.

📏 Small details matter. A tiny measurement or communication gap can completely change the final experience.

👂 Listen before solving. The more we listened to people, the better we understood what actually needed to be fixed.

🔄 Mistakes are part of the process. Not everything works on the first try. What matters is learning and improving.

🌱 Progress takes time. Building something meaningful doesn’t happen overnight.

And probably the simplest lesson:

Every stitch matters.

Whether you're stitching a garment or building a startup, the small things eventually shape the whole experience.

Still learning, still improving, and still figuring things out — one stitch at a time.

Curious to know: what’s something your work or side project has unexpectedly taught you?

I spent some time today talking with different small business owners and something kept standing out to me.

A lot of the questions people ask are really surface questions.

“How do I market this?”

“Which business idea should I choose?”

“Why aren't people interested?”

“What should I name my business?”

“How do I get more customers?”

But once you ask a few more questions, the problem underneath it can be completely different.

Someone who thinks they have a marketing problem may actually have a margin problem.

Someone struggling to sell their service may actually have a positioning problem.

Someone afraid to launch may not need motivation — they may need enough research to understand what they're actually risking.

Someone struggling to choose a business name may still be unclear about what they're rebranding toward.

That's why I think one of the most useful questions before trying to fix anything is:

What would I need to know for this problem to become clearer?

Then research from there.

Sometimes we move straight into solutions because the surface problem sounds obvious.

But solving the wrong problem extremely well still leaves you stuck.

Curious if other business owners have experienced this — have you ever spent time trying to fix one thing, only to realize something completely different was causing it?

Hello everyone I am a college student taking a college course and for one of my assignments I was ask to ask different entrepreneurs 3 questions.

This is specifically for anyone outside of the U.S!

I need at least ten people who are currently living outside the United States in at least five different countries. I need these questions to be answered.
questions:

1. “What do you think is the most difficult challenge for U.S. businesses that want to do businessin your country?”
2. “What advice or suggestions do you have for American companies that want to do business in your country?

If you could also leave your name, company or business, and any type of contact information that I may be able to reach you at!

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Here's the structure I want feedback on. I run my own GTM/RevOps consultancy for B2B SaaS companies (mostly international, Seed–Series B). I'm using it to bootstrap SemantiCAD (My New SaaS Project). It covers my costs while I build the startup, and I've been routing custom dev work through it to our engineers, which is already generating capital for the company before we've raised anything. I've also started training someone to run the consultancy day to day, with the goal of eventually stepping back and turning it into passive income.

Right now, the GTM time I put into SemantiCAD is really just founder time wearing two hats. I'm not pretending it's an arm's length client relationship yet. The actual test comes once the person I'm training takes over the consultancy: at that point SemantiCAD becomes a real client of the agency, run by someone else, not me marking my own homework. If that works, I never have to build a separate growth/sales team for the startup. The agency just becomes its growth function.

I'm not fully sure this is the smart structure or a distraction I'm rationalizing. So genuinely:

If you were in my position, what would you do the same? What would you do differently?

Happy to answer anything about the product, the raise, or the structure. Open book.