How did you come up with the idea for your product or service?

Most of my ideas stem from what i am either experiencing at that time or whats happening around me.

https://skilledup.life - free talent for tech startups started in the middle of Covid 19 pandemic. I blogged about the start https://www.skilledup.life/backg... Essentially, I lived with the problem since 2004. How do you build a team to take your vision for a tech startup forward if you do not have sufficient capital to hire a team? Not every tech startup is investible. In fact, less than 1% of tech companies get funded. If you do not have capital, your chances of success are low. I finally managed to solve this and I am thankful to the break the pandemic offered.

The product is created to solve a problem, a need of the community. In my case, we stand for user experience to build the product. In the end, all of us want the customers to have the best experience, and that product can meet their needs.

Just Need of the customer

We were developing games in the web3 gaming industry. If you're familiar with this you know that you'll need a defi wallet to connect with the game. Crypto and defi is still a very new technology and UI/UX isn't the best. Terrible registration process, difficult terminology, and the onboarding simply is overwhelming for someone new. We wanted to use the technology cause it made sense but we didn't wanna limit ourselves to people that are already familiar with web3. What did we do? We looked at the problem - onboarding - and made all the crypto parts completely invisible for users and replaced registration with "Sign up with Google". Eversince we've had tremendous user growth, our walletless tech is oversubscribed and we're actively whitelabeling it to companies. :)

Ordered skincare products from Alibaba and put that on e-commerce platform.

We managed comments on our client's behalf (fully managed service) and one of our top brands said it would be so helpful to have a platform to see all comments in one place. So we took that to the next level :D https://www.producthunt.com/post...

All my previous products are the solutions to the problems that I faced. This is my ideal process 1. Faced a problem 2. Look for existing solutions 3. If not solution exists, then I will build one.

I hit a pain point personally which led me to create a product. I was project managing and noticed the team was tracking decisions in so many places that my brain would explode: our wiki, Zoom chats, emails, Slack. I was sick of trying to search all these tools so I built 1 tool to act as a source of truth, alongside the context already in Slack. It's called Decision Tracker for Slack. :) https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

I always find myself building tools that solve my own problems. If I am building it myself, it means I’ve exhausted all my resources and determined that there isn’t anything on the market that can solve this for me. After I have built the “tool version” that solves my problem, I’ll transition from engineer mode to designer mode to create the “product version”. This version needs to be more marketable, have nice UI/UX, and a cute tagline. This usually involves user research, design improvement, addition of more features to make a more robust product, and product generalization to suit more users.