Ideas Lab
Real problems people complain about online, pulled every morning and scored out of 100. Build, validate, or skip. How scoring works
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Ad bidding platform without ads or fees
Marketers need a simple bidding site to rank #1 for visibility with no ads, API keys, or revenue sharing, as current ad platforms are complex and costly.
X2mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
SaaS and app founders struggle with marketing, distribution, and consistently creating content to promote their products
Founders can build great products but repeatedly face difficulties in handling marketing, distribution, and ongoing content creation needed for promotion and growth.
X2mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Social media apps cause sudden drops in impressions and followers without explanation
Platforms like apps used for promotion experience drastic unexplained drops in reach (e.g., from 100k impressions to losing followers), leading to frustration over algorithm opacity.
X2mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Difficulty in testing and validating low-CAC marketing channels for new education apps without established distribution
Startups building education apps struggle to quickly test multiple acquisition channels like TikTok UGC, creator campaigns, and forums while keeping customer acquisition costs low (targeting below 2 months subscription value), requiring structured experiments from day one.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
High effort required to research and apply proven marketing patterns from successful US startups when launching Brazilian education platforms
Teams building education startups dedicate significant time to analyzing top-performing content formats, storytelling, and distribution tactics from American apps to replicate success, revealing a need for accessible benchmarks and templates tailored to local markets.
X3mo agoTemplateMarketing & Sales
Finding qualified niche influencers for startup marketing is excessively time-consuming
Startup founders in education sector waste significant time manually searching and vetting influencers (300+ profiles reviewed, only 43 qualified), with no efficient current tools for targeted discovery in Brazil.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Difficulty sharing SaaS products on Reddit without post removal due to strict promotion rules
SaaS founders struggle to promote their products on Reddit communities like r/SaaS without violating strict anti-promotion rules, limiting organic reach.
X2mo agoArticleMarketing & Sales
SaaS founders struggle with marketing, distribution, and consistent content creation
SaaS and app founders can build great products but find marketing, distribution, and consistently creating content to promote them extremely difficult.
X2mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Instagram Message Automation Compliance Tool
Safe automation tool for Instagram DM campaigns with built-in rate limiting, compliance checks, and personalization to avoid account bans and enable legitimate bulk messaging. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
Hacker News2mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Instagram DM & Comment Auto-Response Manager
Help content creators and small businesses automatically respond to common Instagram DMs and comments with templated replies, saving time on repetitive communication while maintaining engagement. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Founders struggle to clearly articulate the problem their product solves leading to poor marketing
When asking community members what problem a product solves yields inconsistent answers, indicating lack of clarity rather than marketing issues.
X3mo agoOtherMarketing & Sales
Founders need pre-publish feedback on X posts
Founders lack quick, high-quality feedback on their X (Twitter) posts before publishing, leading to suboptimal engagement or messaging.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Cross-Platform Social Media Scheduler
Instagram scheduling is locked behind Meta Business Suite with limited features. Creators need better scheduling UX, bulk upload, optimal time suggestions, and multi-platform posting (Instagram + TikTok + LinkedIn). [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Multi-Account TikTok Manager
Creators managing multiple TikTok accounts struggle with switching contexts, tracking analytics per account, and scheduling across profiles. A unified dashboard could streamline account switching, consolidated analytics, and batch scheduling. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Influencer ROI Measurement Platform
Marketers struggle to measure true influencer campaign ROI and performance attribution. A tool combining audience analytics, engagement tracking, and conversion measurement could solve fragmented measurement approaches. [Trending: "influencer marketing" with 200+ searches in US]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Cold outreach lacks immediate proof or custom demo for prospects
Cold email outreach focuses only on getting attention but fails to provide tangible proof of value upfront, making it hard to convert prospects without building and showing a custom prototype first.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Founders struggle with product distribution and customer acquisition
Many founders have great products but face major challenges in getting high-intent buyers to discover, trust, and engage with them through effective channels like Google or AI search.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Manual mailer distribution for real estate marketing
Moving company owners must print and hand-stick 300-500 mailers daily to new listings and homes under contract, with no way to automate the physical process.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Lack of organic social/YouTube attribution for app downloads
App developers and marketers struggle to accurately track how many downloads or traffic come from specific organic YouTube videos or social content, as current tools focus only on paid ads and leave organic sources unmeasurable.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales