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Generate product ideas for your next profitable indie business.

"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas..."
— Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize Laureate

Learn how to find ideas for your next startup, indie business or a side hustle using 23 highly actionable step-by-step frameworks. Use these ideas to start your next SaaS, physical, digital, services or content business.

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What you will learn from this book

Finding ideas — Discover actionable techniques to immediately find problems to build businesses around.

Noticing problems — Learn the mindset that will help you start noticing problems that can be converted to product ideas.

Finding niche markets — Define a list of audiences you'd enjoy serving, and explore opportunities in the niches they are in.

What’s inside?

23 actionable frameworks for generating product ideas

70+ examples of products for the frameworks

7 resources with product ideas not invented yet

13 resources to keep track of newly launched products

A sneak peek into the frameworks:

Who should read this book?

Entrepreneurs & indie hackers

  • Launch your SaaS, physical, digital, or content product.
  • Build a backlog of product ideas for your next projects.
  • Find ideas for growth and marketing projects for your existing products.

Full time employees (software engineers, designers, product managers)

  • Build a profitable side hustle that one day could become your full-time hustle.
  • Increase your chances of getting a PM job via building a side project and gaining experience in validating, shipping, and selling your own product.
  • Find a weekend project to realize your passions.

Freelancers

  • Package your service-provider experience into a product (Framework #18).
  • Find opportunities for a passive-income product to diversify your income.

About the author

Hey! My name is Artiom Dashinsky and I'm an entrepreneur and a product designer based in Berlin. My last book became an Amazon Best-Seller in the UX Design category. During my designer career I led the product design of multiple products at WeWork and worked with startups building their products and design culture.

For the last several years I've been working on my own digital, physical and content products. Products I've built are used by tens of thousands of professionals working at companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, and Boeing. Products I built or designed are featured in Wired, TechCrunch, Forbes, Quartz, Smashing Magazine, Awwwards and more.

You can reach me on Twitter or email.

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Product Ideas List for Indie Hackers

Before starting to write this book I publicly shared the product ideas on my list for indie hackers and entrepreneurs. Feel free to implement them or use them as an inspiration for your own projects.

Examples of ideas you'll generate:

Problem: It’s hard for non-native speakers to know if their language level will be good enough to understand a book or movie prior to purchase.

Solution: Analyze language complexity to assign a score to books, movies, podcasts, YouTube channels, etc. Build a stand-alone platform and/or a browser add-on displaying the scoring on Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, etc.

Problem: eCommerce websites don’t show the product’s cost over its entire lifespan. It doesn’t consider durability, warranty conditions, repair costs, and resource consumption. These factors can heavily affect the overall product price.

Solution: Help eCommerce websites to provide consumers with expanded price information, considering these factors.

Problem: Looking down at your phone places enormous strain on the spine and can result in head, neck and arm pain.

Solution: Create a smartphone app to measure and track its user’s posture, similar to Screen Time. The measurements could be done via the device’s built-in inclinometers.

Problem: Workspaces (office, co-working, coffee shop, home) produce noise, which can affect human performance, creativity levels, and even health.

Solution: Build an app to measure, track and analyze noise levels, providing insight with possible improvements.

Problem: There are no sustainably produced rain covers for bikes on the market.

Solution: Produce and distribute bike rain covers made of sustainable materials.

Problem: High CO2 levels in a working space can decrease cognitive performance by 50%. It negatively affects people working in co-working spaces and companies whose workers’ productivity is affected.

Solution: Build a service that measures indoor CO2 levels, provides a report on the results, and sells equipment or services to improve it.