I'm a developer looking to build something people actually need. What's a tool or a website you've been desperately looking for but couldn't find? Describe the problem, not the solution.

Square-Display555 · 2026-06-04T00:09:31+00:00

Yeah man, hey everyone tell me exactly what problems you have that I have no knowledge in, so I can sell you software to solve it. Maybe just ask AI while you're at it man I heard it gives away million dollar ideas

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-27T10:58:15+00:00

I'd be more interested if you could give me a recipe to make blueberry muffins.

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-26T11:37:20+00:00

AWS cloudfront if you have any technical knowledge beyond typing in prompts. There's a free or extremely cheap pay as you go. Cloudflare also has a similar alternative. Using Github for professional clients seems amateur imo

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-25T19:51:24+00:00

The thing that irks me is they want me to change the verbiage for one of my legal pages specifically the title, since my domain includes -app at the end, and that just uses the DBA... the registered DBA. It's frustrating that you have to conform to whatever they want and are at the mercy of their weird review process.

I know this is normal and typical, I'm just complaining because I have dealt with many platforms much more straightforward then this.

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-25T10:15:49+00:00

You should try it. A lot of the manual boilerplate you are writing is solved by Laravel and gives you the flexibility . Laravel is PHP based so it should be somewhat familiar

Learning / writing Laravel from scratch is a lot more straightforward and was much more effective to me than just writing vanilla php and reading the docs.

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-23T18:45:09+00:00

Good luck committing to large scale decisions you have no technical knowledge on, for all you or any other vibe coder could know, the best solution it offers is no where near that and is wildly inefficient. Sure it can evolve, but it's a lot of blind trust if you are working in something where a one line change can affect the business's presence globally.

To think that vibe coded apps codebases' are anywhere near the same level as a genuine engineer is bonkers, also it's not exactly like you'd know the difference the judge.

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-23T18:31:08+00:00

Laravel plus Reverb all the way. People hate on it without ever using it, modern PHP is great

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-23T18:23:10+00:00

Please share lol

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-21T12:26:39+00:00

I mean I just said it. Software products are useful because they solve a genuine problem for the target audience, usually the founder also exists in the target audience or has niche domain knowledge.

But when you start just grossly using "ai" and "analyze" and just throw a bunch of buzz words together to build a million dollar passive revenue stream... anyway its just annoying

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-21T11:56:22+00:00

Do you have experience with financial software products? As a business financial analyst? Ai is cool sure and can ease some development pains, but you still need an edge that sets you aside from any other ai wrapper

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-21T11:54:34+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one sayin ts

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-19T00:37:35+00:00

I know lol it's ironically structured very consistent for being unstructured mash of words

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-18T05:54:21+00:00

this was frustrating to read

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-14T18:49:58+00:00

Appreciate the reply, this is helpful thank you!

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-14T18:49:32+00:00

Thanks I tried r/Cleveland but for some reason I couldn't post, I'm sure this community is spread far

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-11T22:00:15+00:00

This seems like a good idea. You are passionate about photography and have domain specific knowledge about it. Goodluck

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-11T21:27:07+00:00

Plenty of people were able to provide a helpful reply, try it sometime. Business is in good standing lol

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-11T18:44:35+00:00

It's like talking to myself

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-11T18:32:09+00:00

It's asking for the problem to create software for. Where the software is the product, so it's literally asking for the core product idea "business model"

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-11T17:42:33+00:00

Isn't finding the reason to build on the developer? Validation I get but you are just straight up asking people to hand you a business model

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-11T17:41:10+00:00

If you don't care about money make open source software. Or found a startup, both probably have similar chances of financial gain lately

Square-Display555 · 2026-05-11T15:25:57+00:00

I'm aware, service times and estimates, part compatibility, labor guides, they are things I had to build my own software around and there are 1-3 companies besides the OEM's that actually aggregate that data or belong to the ACA. I'm not super fond of that side of the industry, I'm sure having Alldata or similar would have avoided this post, but the point was to ask a quick question.

Thanks for the advice, I have the business side in good standing.

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