What Pain-Point are you Solving and How did you discover it?
We’re all builders here, which usually means at some point we looked at something clunky, slow, or frustrating and thought, “there has to be a better way.” Most products don’t start with a grand vision; they start with irritation, curiosity, or firsthand pain.
I’d love to learn more about how others here have navigated that journey:
• How did you uncover the problem you decided to work on?
• What signals told you this problem was worth solving?
• How did you validate (if at all) whether people would actually pay for a solution?
• Has your product stayed true to the original problem, or did it evolve into something different?
• What surprised you the most along the way?
If there’s anything else you’ve learned, good or bad, feel free to share. The honest stories are usually the most helpful.
And of course, feel free to plug what you’re building as well as you may have the solution to a problem somebody else is looking for!
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We are helping B2B companies improve their website engagement and conversion using Agentic Live Video Agents. I discovered it by talking to over 30+ product heads, marketers and founders who repeatedly mentioned that they have been trying to fix it. Hence we built www.kickkers.com to support early stage & mid market cos. to help them in business growth.
Pause.do
Two things hit at once, an MIT paper showing regular AI use for simple tasks measurably reduces cognitive engagement, and my own ChatGPT history full of "rewrite this sentence" and "what's the word for X." Things I already knew. I wasn't using AI as a tool, I was using it as a reflex. Same with feeds, opening Twitter with no intent, scrolling, closing, opening again.
Screen time apps tell you how much you used something. They don't ask if you tried first. That gap is what pause.do sits in.