ProblemHunt
A place to collect real problems before building startups
Details
- External ID
- 46724662
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ProblemHunt
- Website domain
- problemhunt.pro
- Launched
- Jan. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I’m a solo founder. I built ProblemHunt after noticing a common pattern: many founders start with ideas and solutions, but don’t spend enough time understanding real problems.ProblemHunt is a simple place where people share problems they actually face in work or life. Developers and founders can browse these problems and use them as a starting point for building products.So far: – ~5,000 users – 150+ real problems submitted – 100% organic growthThis is still early, and I’m trying to understand if this is genuinely useful.I’d really appreciate feedback: – Would you use something like this? – What feels unnecessary or confusing? – What would make it more valuable?Link: https://problemhunt.pro
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- problem validation platform for startup founders
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward community forum/directory website for submitting and voting on problems, easily built with modern full-stack web frameworks.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Similar product failed 10 years ago, People may not be aware of their problems
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 79 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #80 of 80 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 84 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.