Boris Gostroverhov

⚡ Real Problem: A Product Designer Afraid AI Will Replace Her

Guys, a month ago, Anna, a product designer, reached out to me from the ProblemHunt community. She described her problem in detail in DMs. It was probably the most genuine and sincere description of pain I have ever seen. Anna has this ability to talk about her problems with complete openness and raw emotion — for any researcher, it's an absolute gift.

Today she shared a new problem, and I've just posted it now. It's hard for me to convey the tone through text in a post, but trust me, it's genuinely painful. It's that intense fear of a designer becoming obsolete in the era of AI.

By the way, Y Combinator is currently actively investing in startups that help people work in this new world with AI. This is one of their main focuses right now. But they don't just need ideas; they need very specific, tangible pain points. And Anna's problem is spot on.

P.S. Anna is also ready to become a co-founder and solve her own problem, which would really help a startup avoid hallucinations when building the product.

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Boris Gostroverhov

Idea: AI Design Orchestrator

A product that allows a designer to assemble and manage an army of AI agents to do the work of an entire studio.

Not just an AI tool. But an operating system for AI design.

The problem. Today, a designer needs to work with a bunch of tools:

Claude
Cursor
Midjourney
Figma
Runway
ChatGPT
code generators
UI generators

And none of this is connected into a single workflow.

That's why people do manual orchestration:

copying prompts
copying results
stitching it all together by hand.