Sometimes we have these incredible capabilities with Replit, but the ideas just don’t come. Or maybe I feel like I’ve already thought of everything I could possibly think of. I’ve tried things, experimented, but honestly a lot of them failed.
I have basically two questions for this community.
When you feel like you’ve dried up on ideas, what tools or methods or even links or platforms do you use to get inspired? Where do you find real problems or data that spark the next idea you want to try building on Replit?
I’m genuinely curious because I know the potential is there, I just need to figure out how you all keep the pipeline flowing when your brain hits that wall. What’s your process?
This is a great question, Luram. Eric had a good response that if you can think about things that you know a lot about building around that is really useful. If you’re looking at exploring and trying out new features and functionality of Replit to see how far you can stretch it, one idea is to look through places like Reddit or look at communities that you might be involved in and see if you find common pain points or issues that people are struggling with, and you might be able to build things that solve those problems.
I’d also add networking groups, like entrepreneurial groups, or talk to executives about gaps that they see in their roles that could be solved (the big one is the office of the CFO right now according to my VC/PE connections).
Those only happen every-so-often, so between networking events, the best inspiration I always have is when listening (podcasts like My First Million, and startup podcasts) or reading (here’s a list that might be helpful to start with: 15 Top Product Management Books for Product Managers in 2025)
Again I have to say, best to stick to your domain. If you try to solve a bunch of problems outside of your domain, you’ll get crushed by someone who’s an expert there and knows the nuances.
Few exceptions. But not many.
This doesn’t mean you can’t bring on someone who is an expert in a particular domain to help craft it.
As Eric and what everyone else implies, stay in your lane of what you can do, Look at your work/business environment around you and think ,what can speed things up or be useful to make, just around you. Ask grok/Claude/Chatgpt etc if it stacks up, then make a MVP, and step back and see if it is useful, or if it just adds steps to something and is actually redundant and not needed. that’s how I work.
Interesting replies from you all
Τhank you very much!
I definitely bookmarked the books as suggested by @shawn93. I already bought the first one on Amazon , you definitely made an impact with this reply!
Most of you are saying to stay around the field where someone’s best at.
Let me tell you a secret, which will no longer be a secret: my field of specialization is in cannabis cultivation and the industry around it. I don’t want to go into specifics for obvious reasons, but it’s definitely a field that needs solutions and has a lot of problems to solve. My issue is that most of the time, the outcome that I have is, for example, like @grayhill5 mentions:
“The most difficult step is to watch your MVP fail and try to make it not to, lmao.”
A network of people would make things better
I’m also noting that.
Maybe going to venues and events on the subject will help get connected the way it’s supposed to be done properly, right?
Still so much to get involved in, just to have a shot at the app and make people see that you exist, basically
I support this idea. The essence of creating great products lies in your expertise within a specific field. I have seen impressive products developed by doctors and marketing experts who may possess only basic technical skills but have deep industry experience that allows them to create amazing things using AI.
For me I keep a notepad by my bed, by my shower, in my car, by my computer at work,… always close to capture my ideas as they come. For me, the ideas flow, I just need to be able to capture them wherever I am because they can be fleeting. The ideas often are related to my pain points / friction in my personal and work life. I’m also inspired by other people’s pain points I feel can be generalized.
towards the end of the day I’ll consolidate them into one google Keep document that I have with all these ideas. I also dictate to my phone, but there’s something about writing it down I like. Kinda old school. My ideas list is like 40-50 items long now.
You have just defined an app idea. You speak notes to the app, all of which are ideas. Then automatically
each day it uses ai to consolidate them and email you a report. Lots more detail to add, but if you do it I would be your first user - I’d say most of us in here could use that app!
And do a version for ideas for social media posts. Each night it consolidates them and writes them out as full posts for you to check ready for posting.
Although people have tried to make something similar in a form of a daily newsletter that the AI posts about app search trends reading google analytics, but 9 out 10 times the idea is just not that good because is not “curated” well
Well well, look at all these massive changes happening. Trump Administration announced the reschedule of Cannabis which means that we are already in a surge of ideas emersing just from this fact alone. This happened just yesterday ? 2 days ago ? Its fresh news from the oven
@realfunnyeric There will be a massive need for all these companies out there for systems around the subject, schedule 3 also means that now the banking system will start to integrate those businesses, about time!
Feels like the time is now folks, what do we build !
