RealProblemHunt
Consumer and social
problem sharing community
SHOW HN2015
122points
42comments
#193of 2,565 in 2015
Top 8%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 6 for, 6 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that fills a need for sharing problems
From 3 comments
This is awesome - I'm a big fan. I'm running an early stage startup and having somewhere to ping problems to a community would be extremely beneficial. Really interested to see…
itschaffey on HNWow what a great idea!
aerialcombat on HNSo I've seen this idea in different incarnations. My favourite was probably the one that scraped Twitter for people complaining about various things and had people rank those.…
Kiro on HN
Objections
Problems posted are too narrow or localized to be actionable
From 2 comments
I went to the site expecting to find "real" problems in the vein of "I'm a single working mom and it's hard to help my son with his homework" or "I have to care for a sick…
eastbayjake on HNWow sucks to be in the Philippians right now :D I fear that having very localized problems will end up killing the site. Most people can't act on these problems but they are…
davidrusu on HN
Low contributor engagement is a risk for such sites
From 1 comment
As far as I remember the oldest attempt to create something like that was http://theinternetwishlist.com/ These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not enough…
ArekDymalski on HN
Requests
Split the site into categories or focused communities
From 3 comments
@all - Hi guys! Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions. It will really help us improve the site. We're still at a very early stage so we really have lots of things to fix…
johnkevinmbasco on HNGreat idea. Based on the feedback and suggestions we gathered, we're now planing to split the site into different categories or at least focus in a specific community of people…
johnkevinmbasco on HN@all - Hi again. We're planning to add categories and tags. Any suggestion on what categories and tags should we add? And do you think splitting the site into subdomains makes…
johnkevinmbasco on HN
Add an RSS feed
From 1 comment
I want an RSS feed, but I don't see an RSS feed.
Tideflat on HN
Questions
What categories and tags should the site have
From 1 comment
@all - Hi again. We're planning to add categories and tags. Any suggestion on what categories and tags should we add? And do you think splitting the site into subdomains makes…
johnkevinmbasco on HN
Alternatives named
ReverseFunder
From 1 comment
ReverseFunder: http://blog.oxify.co/2014/10/09/our-mission-make-ideas-come-true/
amit_m on HN
Bountysource and Assembly
From 1 comment
This looks like it needs some type of integration into existing "let's build this" and "let's fix this" types of sites: ``` - https://assembly.com/discover -…
metasean on HN
Stack Exchange, Quora and Yahoo Answers
From 2 comments
Problem: How to I find solutions to my problem? Answer: Yahoo Answers, AskVille, AnswerBag, Stack Exchange, Quora, Hacker News Ask, Google ...
bbcbasic on HNI'd say it is probably more like a Stack Exchange for problems than a Product Hunt for problems. Browsing Product Hunt is too distracting for me because there are so many…
stevesearer on HN
Halfbakery
From 1 comment
I like http://www.halfbakery.com/ -- ideas there aren't quite serious.
Erwin on HN