Every problem links back to the post it came from, and the person who wrote it is still there.
indie devs shipping side projects
42 found“I've shipped four side projects this year and every one died at zero users.”
“Every newsletter felt essential when I subscribed. Now my inbox is unusable.”
“Brands keep asking for my UGC rates and I'm making the numbers up.”
Someone describing a problem in public has already decided it is worth solving.
Run the search over new posts and you are reading problems from this week, not from three years ago.
Keep the posts worth answering, note what you said and to whom, and drop the rest.
Pick a trade you understand and read what the people in it are already fed up with.
See whether anyone complains about the problem you picked, without asking a single leading question.
Search your own category and read what people say is missing from the tools they already pay for.
Every problem comes with a verbatim quote. That is your headline.
Read a segment's real problems before you commit a quarter to it.
Every complaint is a post, a video or a newsletter someone already asked for.