Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever

The world does not revolve around compilers and SDKs..I am talking about problems laymen face

The hard problem here is getting people to contribute with content. They have no incentive to share their pain points. Often they don't even know about what it is or how to describe it. You kinda have to do the leg work and diligence of talking to them and trying to pull that information from them, rather than them pushing to you. But I agree this is immensely important.

damn, i became the person i was describing

This can be extended to include what you’re talking about. Do you have a list in mind?

nope

Agreed! And, i would call such a site/portal/etc., something like "Awesome Pain"...I guess it could serve as a repo of anything from:

* startup ideas...

* to gotchas for devs to think about fixing for their respective apps/services...

* to a study in best practices, or maybe what not todos...

...etc. ;-)

isn't this basically Twitter, FB and even Linkedin (laymen complaining about how they can't find jobs or get ghosted), as well as community/help forums for specific products? Of course, there's no central forum for sharing pains, but people tend to complain in the platform where they're most likely to get a response...

If you're looking for casual ideas what persons have ideas on then have a scroll through halfbakery.com they are inspired by problems that people foresaw.

There are several tools out there that scan Reddit for people complaining about problems. Just search for them.

Okay, I'll bite, I searched and couldn't find them. What are they called?

Found a thread about a recent one: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1c6ch2w/i_gene...

I am solving this by buidling https://huntlie.com

Users can give feedback for their product which can be used by others to decide which product in the same niche they want before trying every product and then finding out.

I am also trying to figure out ratings (Usability, Support, Value for money) for each product.

It's called UX Research.

Isn’t that just a blog or podcast or even a YouTube channel. You might think I’m being funny, but this is the core purpose of the web—low friction/barriers to put your personal content on www. The low barrier platforms are YouTube and any of the social media apps when a *blogger use these to promote their content hosted anywhere they choose (for all the various reasons someone choose how they want to produce content)

Isn't that basically https://stackoverflow.com/ and/or https://serverfault.com/ ?