Coming in
July 2020
"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.
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.
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
4/
— Artiom Dashinsky (@hvost) January 16, 2020
- Scientific researches are exploring problems. Use researches aggregators like https://t.co/KNFDvNF8kA or https://t.co/fBf5Vz5327 to explore problems or type an area of your interest (e.g. "remote work") in search and find specific problems in this field.
3/
— Artiom Dashinsky (@hvost) January 16, 2020
- Go to https://t.co/7NLIrYndEs, write the topic of your interest and see what people are searching for, solve this need. Search for “remote work” bring some needs that you could capitalize on: remote work agreement, remote work agency, remote work podcast, remote work taxes.
2/
— Artiom Dashinsky (@hvost) January 16, 2020
- Analyze SaaS products pricing pages and build products out of their features: https://t.co/lTU4Hs8Ein (pro: this company already put efforts/money to validate what customers are willing to pay for).
Entrepreneurs & indie hackers
Full time employees (software engineers, designers, product managers)
Freelancers
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.
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.
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.