pradeep23

I have seen successful failures with most of my projects since last few years except 'How's It Like' - www.howsitlike.com which is doing great! ;) This took me back to the first step of understanding if I'm looking at the right problem at all that needs a solution. Often times, I found majority of the products are solving something that is not actually broken and not worth fixing it.

I started curiously searching for some real problems from users so that I can pick the most pressing problem in that list and work on that. I ended up finding thousands of articles and content on how to find problems that are worth solving but there is no actual platform where this can be initiated. I've seen loads of time, effort and money going into products that ended up failing and most of the times, the reason being the product is not of interest to the users!

This is where our initial MVP started off in 2019 Feb..

Kicked off in February 2019 with a small community of people raising, discussing and sharing problems in an excel sheet.

In April 2019, we have launched 'ProShareUs' - 'Share your problems with us' through a minimal product and that helped us reach more people.

And in 2020, we are redesigning and rebranding our product as 'Probstack' - 'Find problems that are worth solving' to better reflect our mission and stand out.

Are you thinking of turning a potential problem into an idea for your product? Validate your problems on www.probstack.io before writing a line of code!

Eagerly looking for your valuable feedback to grow this together!

Just launched on Product Hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/probstack

Thanks!

Many thanks. Looks like I'm unable to edit it now. My product is not yet ready to do a Show HN so I thought of gathering pre-launch feedback with the landing page. I'll see if I can edit. Thanks

Hi all, Hope you are safe and well.

I would like to know your feedback and first impressions on https://www.probstack.io a community to find problems that are worth solving!

A place to raise, discuss and get problems solved that are worth it organically.

A little background on how it all started in 2019.

I have seen successful failures with most of my projects since last few years except 'How's It Like' - www.howsitlike.com which is doing great! ;) This took me back to the first step of understanding if I'm looking at the right problem at all that needs a solution. Often times, I found majority of the products are solving something that is not actually broken and not worth fixing it.

I started curiously searching for some real problems from users so that I can pick the most pressing problem in that list and work on that. I ended up finding thousands of articles and content on how to find problems that are worth solving but there is no actual platform where this can be initiated. I've seen loads of time, effort and money going into products that ended up failing and most of the times, the reason being the product is not of interest to the users!

This is where our initial MVP started off in 2019 Feb..

Kicked off in February 2019 with a small community of people raising, discussing and sharing problems in an excel sheet.

In April 2019, we have launched 'ProShareUs' - 'Share your problems with us' through a minimal product and that helped us reach more people.

And in 2020, we are redesigning and rebranding our product as 'Probstack' - 'Find problems that are worth solving' to better reflect our mission and stand out.

I'm happy to be re-launching very soon and would love to speak to people who have frustrating problems and also to curious makers who are looking for valuable problems.

Here is our landing page meanwhile we launch - https://www.probstack.io

Many thanks!!

Hi all,

Hope you are safe and well.

I would like to know your feedback and first impressions on https://www.probstack.io a community to find problems that are worth solving!

A place to raise, discuss and get problems solved that are worth it organically.

A little background on how it all started in 2019.

I have seen successful failures with most of my projects since last few years except 'How's It Like' - www.howsitlike.com which is doing great! ;) This took me back to the first step of understanding if I'm looking at the right problem at all that needs a solution. Often times, I found majority of the products are solving something that is not actually broken and not worth fixing it.

I started curiously searching for some real problems from users so that I can pick the most pressing problem in that list and work on that. I ended up finding thousands of articles and content on how to find problems that are worth solving but there is no actual platform where this can be initiated. I've seen loads of time, effort and money going into products that ended up failing and most of the times, the reason being the product is not of interest to the users!

This is where our initial MVP started off in 2019 Feb..

Kicked off in February 2019 with a small community of people raising, discussing and sharing problems in an excel sheet.

In April 2019, we have launched 'ProShareUs' - 'Share your problems with us' through a minimal product and that helped us reach more people.

And in 2020, we are redesigning and rebranding our product as 'Probstack' - 'Find problems that are worth solving' to better reflect our mission and stand out.

I'm happy to be re-launching very soon and would love to speak to people who have frustrating problems and also to curious makers who are looking for valuable problems.

Here is our landing page meanwhile we launch - https://www.probstack.io

Many thanks!!

8 yrs ago, I started my career as an Analyst followed by Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Product Owner, Project Manager and few different roles in multiple industries. And every time I commited to a new role, I felt nervous as I didn't have much insight into how the company, people, culture and work environment are like. Luckily few of the roles and companies clicked really well and some weren't matching with my expectation and interests. It was hard to quit the roles that weren't a culture fit as a lot of time and effort went into each role both for me and the hiring company.

Since then, I was always doing a lot of manual research on company's culture and work environment before applying to the roles which did take good amount of time and resources. I was interested mainly around flexibility of roles like work from home, flexible start times and offices with lots of creative space where teams can brainstorm ideas and discuss freely. I looked around for a platform that provides this kind of information in the job search process but couldn't find much to my surprise. Although there are very few sites that give this information but they are niche sites. I felt there is still a need to build something that can cover wide range of roles and companies where everyone can explore and find suitable jobs and companies based on culture, benefits and work environment.

Please check our new site and let me know your feedback!

Hi all! Wish you a very Happy New Year :)

8 yrs ago, I started my career as an Analyst followed by Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Product Owner, Project Manager and few different roles in multiple industries. And every time I commited to a new role, I felt nervous as I didn't have much insight into how the company, people, culture and work environment are like. Luckily few of the roles and companies clicked really well and some weren't matching with my expectation and interests. It was hard to quit the roles that weren't a culture fit as a lot of time and effort went into each role both for me and the hiring company.

Since then, I was always doing a lot of manual research on company's culture and work environment before applying to the roles which did take good amount of time and resources. I was interested mainly around flexibility of roles like work from home, flexible start times and offices with lots of creative space where teams can brainstorm ideas and discuss freely. I looked around for a platform that provides this kind of information in the job search process but couldn't find much to my surprise. Although there are very few sites that give this information but they are niche sites. I felt there is still a need to build something that can cover wide range of roles and companies where everyone can explore and find suitable jobs and companies based on culture, benefits and work environment.

Finally, I'm here with "How's It Like" and eagerly waiting for your valuable feedback!

Hi Dave. Happy New Year! Thanks for your valuable feedback. We are happy to inform that we have added this feature now and would be great to hear your feedback - https://www.howsitlike.com

Now you can switch on the toggle beside search option to find jobs only that match all the values you are interested in :)

Thanks for your feedback. True, in terms of values we spoke to the companies and also employees working at each company before assigning a value to the company. Intuit does offer work from home and here is some public feedback on this benefit - https://www.glassdoor.ie/Benefits/Intuit-Work-From-Home-US-B...

As our product is just out, I believe it takes bit more time for traction but am working constantly to provide more value through the site. We thought of culture itself as a niche as only few companies have their culture defined and also that way we would be able to cover different types of roles and companies. We are on a mission to be the largest and finest culture fit job board. Would love to be the go to place for culture fit jobs in general. I'll promote this more once I have the ongoing features like blog, newsletters and company profiles are integrated so that it can be of more value to our users. Thanks once again for your inputs and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for your feedback. I've researched both the options before working on this and there are hardly not many companies where all selected values would match if going with AND. We have around 37 values and each company has a different set of values. Instead we have built tags for each job that would highlight which of the selected values are matching. Additionally, I believe the search bar would help narrow down results to relavant job titles or location which would bring down the results to few. In those filtered results, if a company/job is matching all the values you have selected, it will highlight all of them in the job card. Hope this helps. Having said the above, we are expanding to more companies and roles and there could be 'AND' soon if we could see enough matches. Thanks again!