What interested me more was what suddenly became possible.
There are many problems people have complained about for years, slow reviews, messy handoffs, manual ops, constant back-and-forth, that never quite worked as software businesses.
Not because the problems were small, but because automation was too costly or brittle.
AI changes that. It lowers the cost of replacing human effort just enough for these ideas to cross the viability threshold.
The result isn’t flashy products, but practical ones that quietly save time or money.
I spent time collecting these recurring frustrations from public forums and founder discussions and organised them into startupideasdb;com (google it).
The goal isn’t to predict the next unicorn, but to highlight where AI finally makes existing pain worth solving.
Sharing this to get perspective from the community. What problem feels like it’s been “almost solvable” for years, but finally isn’t anymore?
Happy to hear thoughts or pushback.
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