Guys, how is it March? Anyways it’s Monday and we have we have ideas.

Yesterday I saw an app, it was Tinder but for founders in SF called Pre Seed & Chill.

Seems like everyone can just build a product now, you know what everyone cant do?

Identify a real problem.

In Todays Edition, TL;DR

• YC combinator for Problems
• 10k/month easy to gamify app ideas
• A dog Translator app making how much money?
• CEO, Jack Dorsey announces 40% layoff

💡The idea: A marketplace for validated problems so you know what to build.

The Problem: Many of you may know ProductHunt. Most founders started the same way: Had an idea, built it, and then went looking for validation. I call this a shotgun wedding in Silicon Valley.

Its funny because the real issue is backwards. Millions of people complain about real, painful problems every day in Reddit threads, Slack groups, comment sections, the Grey area ya know? They say things like, “I’d absolutely pay for this,” then nothing happens and the problem gets buried.

🛠 Solution: Build the opposite of ProductHunt. “Instead of flexing features, we flex suffering.” It would be marketplace where customers freely post problems they would pay to solve, others with the same problem can like, comment, repost to show the demand and founders have a stream of problem backed ideas.

Users submit:

Builders then browse ranked, validated demand. They can see, how many people want this solved, who the buyers are, and how much demand it has.

This could all be done before writing a single line of code.

🧰 The Tech Stack:

The MVP doesn’t need to be complex or have any fancy bells or whistles.

It needs: Problem submission forms, upvoting, liking, commenting, subscription plan and access for founders/builders to browse.

How To Bring This To Market:

What happens If you just launch a blank marketplace? Welp good luck bro.

Our plan would be to frame this as a weekly blog or newsletter that consists of curated problems you manually found across the internet. This would include validated problems, the evidence, how to build a solution, and the pain score.

Meanwhile Id be spreading the platform internet wide in X threads, reddit forms, comment sections, paid ads, boosting SEO. When you have 10’s or 100’s of people putting problems on the site, turn on subscriptions so builders can access these people.

Instead of “Come post problems.” You market: “Get your problem funded.”

How to monetize: Builders/Founders pay a $20-$40/mo subscription to get access to a database of problems and contact info for the users.

However differentiating builders and consumers would be tricky and to be honest, i dont have a solution for that yet.

But, you could run sponsorships on the site for products or services. That alone could be a heavy hitter for generating rev. this could be for builder promoting products

📝 On the Napkin: People dont need more solutions, they need more dopamine for doing “hard” things. Apparently discipline is a scam nowadays everyone wants instant gratification.

So gamify certain niches. For example: Duolingo for AI skills. Knowing how to use AI will be the new standard.

The Idea: A gamified app for learning AI by adding daily challenges for prompt engineering, automation challenges, setting up agents, building + shipping micro tools

Users gain points for completing challenges and rank on leaderboards (could also add cash prizes for the leaderboard)

Pricing: $15/month per user. $120/yr per user

$15/month x 200 people

$3000/month x 12 = $36k/yr just from a side hustle

Are you kidding me… a Dog Translator App doing 79k a month. If this doesn’t tell you to just start shipping idk what will. Imagine getting asked what you do for a living and simply saying you make 6 figures from a dog translator app…bruh

🔎 This list of OpenClaw use cases allows you to automate anything. What it includes: high level description of the use case, instructions to set it up, and exact prompts to use.

Layoffs due to AI?? Last week the CEO of Block, Jack Dorsey announced the layoff of 4000 employees, nearly 60% of their workforce found themselves jobless. Wanna know why?

Two words. Artificial Intelligence

Turns out wearing the busy badge of honor is actually a disadvantage. Companies are becoming more aware of their inefficiencies, especially with employees. The result? Smaller teams. Higher output. So Higher expectations. The real shift is skill and not headcount.

Alright, that wraps up our Monday ideas

HEY, Im still tweaking the newsletter’s content and structure, taking suggestions, let me know what you think. My feelings wont be hurt, pinky promise.

If you have other opinions you wanna share or have any ideas you want me to cover, feel to shoot me a reply.

Otherwise next edition drops Friday

mic drop..