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I've been noticing a trend in various organizations, and I'm curious if you've seen it from the trenches: The default assumption that "AI will fix it" for virtually any business challenge, often before anyone has truly drilled down to the root cause.

It's like management hears "AI," and suddenly every structural inefficiency, communication breakdown, or outdated manual process gets rebranded as an AI opportunity. The risk isn't just wasted budget on complex solutions for simple problems; it's also diverting attention from critical systemic issues that a shiny new algorithm can never truly solve. You end up with an AI layer on top of a broken foundation, and guess who has to make it work?

I'm thinking about the value of having a go-to resource – essentially, a curated directory of proven, non-AI operational workflows and systemic solutions for common business problems. Something indexed by problem type, offering a baseline comparison. The idea is to help quickly identify if an issue is genuinely a structural inefficiency needing a process overhaul, rather than just a lack of automation.

Have you experienced this "AI-first" pressure? What are your thoughts on needing more accessible, peer-reviewed non-tech solutions to counter the hype and ensure we're solving the right problems effectively?

Coding is no longer the hard part. It does not take 6 months to build a product anymore; AI tools let us build things in literally days. The real grind is doing the market research and mapping out a solid plan before you write line one of code. I built Goalfinder to automate that research phase. It is an ecosystem for indie hackers and solo devs. If you have an idea, you plug it in and get a full analysis report covering risks, competitive gaps, and next steps. If you just have a problem, it generates the business ideas for you. My favorite part is the home feed, which is just a constant stream of live ideas, solutions, and deep-dive reports. You get 3 free generations a day to play around with it. Let me know what you think.

• Head over to https://goalfinder.space/solutions/submit

You need to mention:

• What problem you’re solving
• Your product name
• Link

While you're at it, I would love your feedback on my idea generator (free 3 generations per day, no account needed). You need a problem (you can just click 'Random' and it will pick a problem from our catalogue)

I recently went live with my app that helps people find app ideas from problems. Everything is set up but I don't have real problems to work with. It doesn't require an account and I would appreciate it if you could head over to goalfinder.space/problems and post any problem you're facing so that someone can build a solution around it. Thank you

• Head over to goalfinder.space/problems
• Submit a problem (what does you app solve?)
• Click on the problem and select submit a prototype
• Enter your app name and URL
• Submit prototype

Your product/service will now be displayed on our prototypes page, under the goal your created, and displayed on the home feed. You can promote your prototype as an add or boost it so that it stays at the top of the prototypes page.

Why go through the effort? It clearly shows the user what you're building for. It shows up when a user searches for the problem you're solving (the problems page will be live by the end of the day). Users can like and leave comments on your product if they like it. You can publish updates on your product using our prototype updates feature. Promote your prototype to have it display in home page. Boost to have it display on top of the prototypes page

• Head over to our generate page - goalfinder.space/generate
• Click create custom goal
• Add a solution: not your product, but the goal behind your product
• Optionally add context (what problem is your product solving?)
• Publish the goal
• Head over to our goals page ('Explore' in the nav bar > goals) and select your goal
• Click submit prototype
• Add your product name and URL
• Submit prototype

Your product/service will now be displayed on our prototypes page, under the goal your created, and displayed on the home feed. You can promote your prototype as an add or boost it so that it stays at the top of the prototypes page.

Why go through the effort? It clearly shows the user what you're building for. It shows up when a user searches for the problem you're solving (the problems page will be live by the end of the day). Users can like and leave comments on your product if they like it. You can publish updates on your product using our prototype updates feature. Promote your prototype to have it display in home page. Boost to have it display on top of the prototypes page

• Head over to our generate page - goalfinder.space/generate
• Click create custom goal
• Add a solution: not your product, but the goal behind your product
• Optionally add context (what problem is your product solving?)
• Publish the goal
• Head over to our goals page or your profile and select your goal
• Click submit prototype
• Add your product name and URL
• Submit prototype

Your product/service will now be displayed on our prototypes page, under the goal your created, and displayed on the home feed. You can promote your prototype as an add or boost it so that it stays at the top of the prototypes page.

Why go through the effort? It clearly shows the user what you're building for. It shows up when a user searches for the problem you're solving (the problems page will be live by the end of the day). Users can like and leave comments on your product if they like it. You can publish updates on your product using our prototype updates feature. Promote your prototype to have it display in home page. Boost to have it display on top of the prototypes page

• Head over to our generate page - goalfinder.space/generate
• Click create custom goal
• Add a solution: not your product, but the goal behind your product
• Optionally add context (what problem is your product solving?)
• Publish the goal
• Head over to our goals page or your profile and select your goal
• Click submit prototype
• Add your product name and URL
• Submit prototype

Your product/service will now be displayed on our prototypes page, under the goal your created, and displayed on the home feed. You can promote your prototype as an add or boost it so that it stays at the top of the prototypes page.

Why go through the effort? It clearly shows the user what you're building for. It shows up when a user searches for the problem you're solving. Users can like and leave comments on your product if they like it. You can publish updates on your product using our prototype updates feature. Promote your prototype to have it display in home page. Boost to have it display on top of the prototypes page.

I have a website that generates ideas from problems. To make it easier for users, I decided to implement a problems page which has data collected from scraping the web of problems. The problem was, the problems collected didn't have much value: existing solutions, general life problems (health issue or no job)... So I took another approach, identify trends and then look for needs generated from it that aren't already being met. I faced a different problem, the needs felt AI generated (it is, but I wanted it to base of live data). I'm currently using a another approach: trend -> operational change -> frictions. For the first two experiments I added target input which allows me select how many problems or needs I wanted. The last one, I divided into 3 steps, find trends (which I did set a target), find operations change (no target), and find frictions (no target). I got a lot of output (230 changes and 840 frictions). Honestly, even with the amount of output, the lasts one generated content with more quality.

How would you approach this? Is there a way to refine to get better output?

Hey everyone, I have a feature in website which analyses an idea and generates a report based on live data. If you're interested in having your idea analyzed drop in what you idea is, what problem you're trying to solve, who's the user and any relevant background.