Stop thinking of ideas. Start with problems.
People drop the problems they actually live with. Everyone votes on the ones they have too. Over time the biggest, most painful ones rise to the top — and builders pick them up and turn them into companies.
- 01Drop it. Describe something that genuinely wastes your time or money. No solutions needed.
- 02Rank it. Vote what’s worth solving. Tap “I have this” when it’s your pain too — that counts double.
- 03Build it. Claim a problem, post your approach, and get your first users from the people who asked.
What people are voting on right now. Votes fade over a few days, so fresh pain can climb fast.
- 1
Failed bank transfers take days to reverse and nobody tells you where the money is
Money leaves my account, the recipient never gets it, and the app just says 'pending'. Customer care gives a ticket number and a 'within 24–72 hours'. Sometimes…
- 2
Landlords demand one to two years of rent upfront
Renting an apartment means finding 12–24 months of rent at once, plus agency and legal fees on top. Salaries are monthly. People either stay somewhere bad for…
- 3
My parents keep falling for scam messages and I only find out after the money's gone
Fake bank SMS, 'your account will be blocked' calls, WhatsApp messages from 'me' on a new number. My parents are smart but not suspicious of tech. I'm not there…
- 4
Freelancers chase clients for weeks to get paid for finished work
The work is delivered and approved, then the invoice sits. Follow-ups feel awkward, and there's no leverage once the files are handed over. Late fees in…
- 5
Flaky end-to-end tests block deploys and nobody owns fixing them
A test fails one run in ten. Everyone hits 're-run' until it's green. Over months the suite gets slower and less trusted, and real failures get re-run away too.…
- 6
I repeat my whole medical history at every new doctor or hospital
Each clinic has its own paper file or system. Allergies, past surgeries, current medication — I recite it from memory every time, and I've definitely forgotten…
- 7
Elderly relatives living alone — nobody knows if they've had a fall
My grandmother lives alone and refuses to move. If she falls, she might lie there for hours until someone visits. Panic buttons need her to wear them and press…
- 8
Finding a reliable plumber or electrician means asking five WhatsApp groups
Every time something breaks I post in the estate group, the church group, the family group. I get three numbers, two don't pick up, one comes and overcharges.…
- 9
Cross-border payouts to contractors in Africa lose 5–8% to fees and FX
We pay contractors in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. Between the wire fee, the intermediary bank, and the exchange-rate spread, they receive noticeably less than…
- 10
Splitting shared household bills with flatmates always ends in an argument
Electricity, internet, generator fuel, cleaning supplies. Somebody always fronts the money and is then owed by three people who 'will send it later'. Usage…
- 11
I can't tell how much fuel my generator has left or when to buy more
The power goes off at night and the generator dies because nobody checked the tank. Fuel prices swing, and I end up buying at the worst time from whoever is…
- 12
Onboarding to a new codebase takes weeks of tribal knowledge
The README is from 2021. Why is this service split in two? Which config is real? The answers are in the heads of three senior engineers who are busy. New hires…
- 13
Kids' school WhatsApp groups bury the one message that actually matters
Two hundred messages a day in the class group — birthday wishes, forwarded prayers, arguments — and somewhere in there is 'bring ₦2,000 and a white shirt…
- 14
Job applications vanish into a void — no status, no rejection
I apply to forty jobs, hear back from three. I don't know if a human ever looked at the others, whether the role was filled, or if I should keep waiting.
- 15
Pharmacies run out of my regular medication and I find out at the counter
I take the same medication every month. Every few months my pharmacy is out of it and I go to three others before finding it, sometimes at double the price.
- 16
Small restaurants lose track of ingredients that are about to expire
Stock comes in, gets pushed to the back, and gets thrown out a week later. We lose real money every month and only notice when we're counting waste.
- 17
Every SaaS tool sends invoices in a different format and my accountant hates me
Thirty subscriptions, thirty invoice formats, some emailed, some only downloadable from a dashboard behind a login. At month-end I spend a day collecting PDFs.
- 18
Teachers spend whole weekends grading handwritten essays
Forty students, two essays a week each. Feedback is late and short because there's no time to write more. The students who need detailed feedback most get the…
- 19
Bus routes in Lagos aren't on any map — you learn them by asking
Danfo and BRT routes, where they stop, how much they cost — none of it is in Google Maps in a usable way. Newcomers and visitors are completely lost.
- 20
Traffic estimates are useless when it rains or roads flood
Map apps say 25 minutes. It's raining, the road by the market floods, and it takes two hours. The apps don't know which roads flood.
- 21
Creators can't tell which brand deals actually paid out and which are still pending
Deals come through DMs, email, agencies. Payment terms are net-30, net-60, 'when the campaign ends'. I've definitely never been paid for some and I couldn't…
- 22
Event check-in lines are slow because tickets are screenshots across five apps
Some people have the email, some a screenshot, some a PDF, some just their name. Volunteers scroll a spreadsheet on a phone. The queue goes round the block.
- 23
I lose the receipts I need for warranty claims and expense reports
Thermal paper fades, emails get buried. When the blender breaks in month eleven, I can't prove when I bought it.
- 24
Meeting notes get written but the action items never get done
We have AI notes now, beautifully summarised. Nobody reads them. 'Who was meant to send that?' is still the first question in the next meeting.
- 25
Small online stores can't absorb the cost of failed deliveries
Customer orders, pay-on-delivery, then isn't home or changes their mind. We've paid the rider both ways and the item comes back damaged.
- 26
I can't tell whether an online course is actually good before paying for it
Every course has 4.8 stars and a slick trailer. I've paid for three that were basically YouTube videos. There's no way to see what you'll actually be able to do…
- 27
API keys and env vars are scattered across laptops and Slack DMs
Someone joins, someone asks 'can you send me the .env?', and a production key goes into a DM forever. Rotating anything means asking around who has a copy.
- 28
Comparing data plans across mobile networks is impossible
Every network has twenty bundles with different validity, night-only data, social-only data. I can't tell which is cheapest for how I actually use my phone.