Backlog
a public repository of real work problems
Details
- External ID
- 46352310
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Backlog
- Website domain
- worldsbacklog.com
- Launched
- Dec. 22, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 112
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9122137404580153
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
AI has made building fast and cheap, but finding the right problems still feels hard.I built World’s Backlog (https://worldsbacklog.com ) to collect real problems directly from people working inside different industries.Contributors post workflow pain, others validate it, and builders can study severity, frequency, and willingness to pay before building anything.Would love feedback from builders and people who feel real pain at work.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- repository of work problems for teams
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward community forum / directory where users submit workflow problems and others upvote or comment. Standard full-stack web stack with basic authentication and database CRUD is easily generated with AI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GitHub issue tracker, traquealo.com (similar platform for Puerto Rico)
Concerns raised: Signup wall blocks exploration and causes user bounce, Deceptive UX: form submission followed by unexpected login requirement, Intense CAPTCHA creates high friction barrier, Problem statements lack useful detail (mismatched titles/descriptions), Unclear value proposition compared to existing enterprise solutions
Feature requests: Remove signup requirement to view content, Make problem posts publicly visible without authentication, Use verified email/magic links instead of password signup, Reduce CAPTCHA difficulty until spam actually becomes problem, Improve problem statement quality and description accuracy
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 40 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 53 days after the earliest competitor.
- ProblemHunt · hn · 2026-01-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- NotBuiltYet– Open-source library of civilisation problems worth solving · hn · 2026-02-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Hindsight: Work Timeline · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Worth Building · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Share your AI Setup, Learn from others · hn · 2026-09-17 · 249 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I built a reference site for the recurring hard problems in software · hn · 2026-04-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Dreamwork · hn · 2026-05-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- LazyIDE · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.