We often celebrate the wins and the "hockey stick growth" moments here, which is incredibly inspiring. However, I believe there's a treasure trove of knowledge in the projects that didn't work out, especially in the rapidly evolving world of AI agents.
Imagine discovering your 80K followers over IG and FB product accounts were gone in an instant.
I run my social media accounts by myself and built them up over the past decade, featuring my products, company, upcoming projects and personal anecdotes all gone. My content is pretty milk toast material, Mighty Wallets, other inventions and insights on design.
Some Ai moderation tool decided I did something so horrific that it required immediate deletion and removal from IG and FB platforms - including my "personal" account where photos of my kids growing up are gone forever. "Gut punch, Depressing, Anxiety producing" - are just some of the ways that Redditors on r/FixMyInstagram and others r/InstagramDisabledBans rack up over 25K visits per week. The other sudden discovery about Digital Feudalism is that its rampantly removing many other creators and indie small businesses across the US and around the world.
What if you could make a completely new product with a snap of your fingers, what would you make? What do you think humanity needs and lacks the most? What would be a product that if it existed it would be like a new mobile phone?
I feel like a lot of product bloat starts with a request that seems totally reasonable in the moment.
Then it ships, and months later you realize it added more complexity than value more support, more exceptions, more maintenance, and one more thing the product has to carry forever.
Would love to hear examples from other builders. What s one request you wish you had handled differently?
Launched Briefance here last week. Solo founder, Istanbul, no team, no investors. Wanted to share what actually happened instead of the usual "thank you so much" post.
Quick context: Briefance turns chaotic client emails into structured briefs. Freelancer target. Paste the mess, get scope, timeline, budget, and follow up questions in ten seconds. Free tier has 3 briefs, no card needed.
If your parents live far from you (different city or country), you probably know that low-grade worry of are they okay today? not enough to call every day, but enough to sit in the back of your mind.
Idea: parent gets a daily prompt, taps one button ( I m fine ) or sends a quick voice note. You get notified instantly, and only get an alert if they don t respond, so you know something might be off.
The idea is to keep it dead simple (no typing, no menus) since that s usually the biggest barrier for elderly parents and tech.
