As far as I remember the oldest attempt to create something like that was <a href="http://theinternetwishlist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://theinternetwishlist.com/</a><p>These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not enough contributing members. It's quite understandable - what is the incentive to post a problem? What is a chance that someone will solve it? When will it happen? How will I know about it? etc. All these factors result in a situation in which people rather treat such sites as an entertaining curiosity.<p>My suggestion to improve it is: make it an inverted Kickstarter - if I've got a problem I pledge X dollars for someone to create a solution for it. Other people with similar problem add their pledges. When the sum starts to look tasty developers pick up the challenge and compete (?) for the bounty. The backers get the solution at discounted prices. Everyone's happy and live long ever after ;)
I went to the site expecting to find "real" problems in the vein of "I'm a single working mom and it's hard to help my son with his homework" or "I have to care for a sick relative but it's hard to get medical advice for small ailments", etc. Most of these just seem like problems in search of a narrowly-focused consumer internet product for upper-middle-class white people or other engineers.<p>That might be a feature and not a bug.
I really like the idea, but the cheeky part of me now suddenly really wants to make a parody site called "RealREALProblemHunt" where the top problems are things like "I have no access to clean water" and "First world countries keep exporting their garbage to my country's shores" as a counterpoint to the ones on this site like "Need to live to be 300 years old" and "Cannot find a place to order late night food past midnight.".
This is great. It'd be very powerful if it existed for major industries or functions within a business (eg business intelligence, it, etc). People would pay to listen in. Almost like <a href="https://www.doximity.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.doximity.com/</a> for other businesses.
So I've seen this idea in different incarnations. My favourite was probably the one that scraped Twitter for people complaining about various things and had people rank those.<p>This seem like a decent attempt to actually make it viable though. Good luck!
This looks like it needs some type of integration into existing "let's build this" and "let's fix this" types of sites:<p><pre><code> - https://assembly.com/discover
- https://www.bountysource.com/</code></pre>
@all - Hi guys! Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions. It will really help us improve the site. We're still at a very early stage so we really have lots of things to fix and improve.<p>Be sure to visit the FAQ page to get an idea on what are the use cases of the site - <a href="http://realproblemhunt.com/faq" rel="nofollow">http://realproblemhunt.com/faq</a><p>To improve the site we are planning to split the site into different categories or at least first focus in a specific community of people so the problems listed will be more relevant to the type of visitor. What are your thoughts about this?
Wow sucks to be in the Philippians right now :D<p>I fear that having very localized problems will end up killing the site. Most people can't act on these problems but they are taking up valuable space on the front page.
"Join our newsletter to receive problems to your inbox" does not sound very fun. You might rephrase that to emphasize some positive outcome.<p>edit: I'm taking my own advice and would like to congratulate you on launching and trying to drive some social good via startups. Good luck!
I'd say it is probably more like a Stack Exchange for problems than a Product Hunt for problems.<p>Browsing Product Hunt is too distracting for me because there are so many solutions to problems I'm not having, which inevitably get me off track of what I am trying to do.
This is awesome - I'm a big fan. I'm running an early stage startup and having somewhere to ping problems to a community would be extremely beneficial. Really interested to see how it grows over the coming months.
Great initiative, but I wouldn't just "copy" the model of PH/HN/Reddit in the long run. Lots of cool new things could be done.
Cool idea. I especially agree with this problem:<p>"It's hard for multiple developers to share one staging server".<p>My company has two staging servers, but with a team of 6 devs, someone often has to wait. Does anybody know of any solutions to spin up/down staging servers in a cost-effective way?.
@all - Hi again. We're planning to add categories and tags. Any suggestion on what categories and tags should we add? And do you think splitting the site into subdomains makes more sense or using categories and tags is enough?<p>Thanks in advance.