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Di

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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Seraina Silja Hürlimann
After hosting a podcast called The Idealists (https://theidealists.co), we realized how engaging audio is. We asked: Are companies creating podcasts internally to engage and connect their employees? Long story short: Yes, they do. But they mentioned how messy it is to share episodes with their employees. That's why we started building Pager (https://pager.fm), a private podcast platform for teams — making podcasting for work a piece of cake. 🎙
Di
@serainasilja why do companies need podcasts?
Seraina Silja Hürlimann
@mironshe Hi, thanks for being curious! Podcasts bring a new spin to internal communications: hearing directly (and therefore in a more authentic way) from leadership, peers, and teammates… without sitting in front of a screen. Employees can listen whenever it suits them!
Andre Dike
Any link to your shopping assistant?
Di
@andre_dike we have launched an upcoming product and will officially show the product to the community in a couple of weeks https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Steven Zoo
I made rate.house because there wasn't a platform where I can track and rate music, movies, TV, books, games, and podcasts all in one place. I made WordHoot because I liked Wordle but wanted to play it repeatedly and against friends. I made newsasfacts.com because I wanted to catch up with important world events in under a minute from trustworthy sources. Essentially, they're all conceived from the question "does this thing I want exist?" and the answer being no.
Di
@steven_rh nice! What's about marketing? How are u going to promote this?
Tim Nicholas
For over 10 years a family member never questioned their electricity provider about the rate they were paying. Turns out they had been upgraded to the most expensive plan after starting on a discounted plan for 'new customers' all those years ago. So they paid thousands of dollars more for electricity. This is called the 'loyalty tax' and is what happens when consumers don't have the motivation or confidence to shop around when a service contract/plan is expiring. Most stay with the existing provider. That's why we created the GetReminded app for iOS and Android. Consumers enter the expiry date and the app sends alerts so people get time and motivation to check the market. In-app contextual ads enable people to shop around easily and quickly.
Di
@tim_nicholas ha-ha! I also don't know my tariff plan of electricity. But I use a standard iPhone app to remind me of something.
Tim Nicholas
@mironshe of course a standard phone app can 'remind' you. So we built additional functionality that phone apps don't have: ie dual app & email notifications; expense & budgeting calculator; multiple alerts so you don't swipe away and forget; and in-app shopping links to make it easy to start shopping around. 😎
Jimmy Spikes
The beach one day
Di
Jimmy Spikes
@mironshe i was on the beach one day thinking about everyone i had lost in my life and really how little i knew and i had from them from family and friends
Sean Song
As a startup, we use Macbook + speakerphone + type-C usb hub for meetings (Zoom, teams) every day. And sometimes we work from home with these devices too. So we wanted to build one integrated device for Macbook. That's HiDock: https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Di
@seansong rocket science, I love this, good luck with launching!
Sean Song
@mironshe thanks Di, we are on the way.
Thomas Surmann
I guess it's the easiest to work in an area where you're facing and understanding the problem yourself. So I came up with a tool to generate code for Spring Boot developers.
Arvindh Sundar
I wish I had a better answer, but mine came up from a need to monetize my skills + my need to manage ADHD. (҂◡̀_◡́)ᕤ
DJJD
Was trying to solve my problem of not having an excellent and vast social media presence, which was hindering my growth efforts significantly.
Di
@gmrlbiz I'm sorry, but to be honest I didn't understand anything. What problem does your product solve?
DJJD
@mironshe the problem of having small or non-existing social media presence, which is extremely common for brands/creatives.
Cassandra
When I work late in the company, when I want to be free from the heavy data, I naturally have new ideas.
Di
@bgsubcassandra what do you do next with your ideas?
Cassandra
@mironshe I spend most of my time at work changing backgrounds for images, so I created a website to help me automate the work. It is now being tested before release and I think it will be a successful product
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