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1) it seems aggressively walled off by login/singup, e.g. one must signup or login just to view the details of a problem.
2) there is a variation of this in the corporate world where “innovation” consultants try to pitch corporate clients on the idea of featuring business problems to a panel of startups. There are a few problems I’ve seen with this model but the most applicable is, people most passionate about a problem set aren’t always the decision makers to procure or fund the solution.
3) have you thought about how to make this a functioning market? It seems like you need to attract builder to work on these problems and subject matter experts to document the problems more deeply than the top level titles.
Use verified email (or magic link) to auth for posting and actions (validating). The posts themselves should be public.
You’d also get some SEO opportunities from more public pages.
You read through the comments and hope someone found a solution
I'm also trying to gather a personal backlog of things at home patiently waiting to be resolved, but can't even get myself through the collection phase...
The frame is that enterprise solutions for these problems do not scale to smaller retail chains, and I find that at least believable.
The thing about this problem is that it's not hidden. It's extremely obvious. I work in SaaS targeting logistics (transportation for me, transportation, order management and warehouse management for our company), so I know a bit about this space, though I'm not in it directly. Plenty of people are solving this problem for bigger companies.
I put roughly 0% credence in the idea that many many people haven't noticed this is a problem for smaller companies. I put low credence on the idea that no one has tried to solve it for them via software. What I suspect is that this is a case where the basic idea is super-simple and obvious, but the reality of producing something that works in the market is hard.
None of that is to say that there couldn't be a real improvement here. It's just that I suspect it takes a real insight into why this problem hasn't been solved yet, and a new angle to make your solution work.
Not only do I feel like you wasted my time, but you probably still kept the data, and then just didn't make it visible to the user who filled it out, since there was some async step in the middle somewhere.
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