Ask HN: I'm building a gamified tool to help you plan and build products

3 points by ratsimihah 1 year ago | 2 comments
As a indie hacker, my biggest pet peeve is to build products no one needs. Therefore, throughout my hacking journey, I've researched ways to validate ideas based on customers feedback and needs, so that I stop making up problems for products I want to build and start building products for actual problems users have and need solutions for.

But it doesn't stop there. I also find it hard to keep track of things I've tried and to aggregate feedback.

Hence, I need my tool to help me and you in two ways:

1. by guiding me at every step of the building journey by giving me directions in the form of short-term missions to validate ideas and always ensure the work I put in is relevant

2. by tracking the work and aggregating the feedback at every step so I always know what I've done and what still needs to be done

Are these pain points you also have? Would you pay for a tool that helps you make all your indie work relevant to build products peuple actually want? What other problems do you need to solve when building your own products?

  • Esus 1 year ago
    That sounds good. I'd pay for this if it was simple and gamified enough. (E.g. RPG style w/levelling and achievements.)

    Via Negativa - I wouldn't pay for this if it:

    - Uses LLMs/AI and gives me more text to read lol

    - Isn't gamified

    - Requires me to track work beyond 10 seconds of input

    Just some thoughts off the top of my head, sounds like a fun idea! I have an approach that took me almost 13-16 months now to validate ideas with, would be more fun to do as a game.

    • ratsimihah 1 year ago
      Thanks for the feedback! Yea it should definitely not feel like a time consuming chore and more like a tool that makes you more productive. I'll have a think about it.