Hello 2026. Nice to meet you as well.
Problem
Finding problems worth solving as an entrepreneur can be surprisingly difficult.
I find myself researching esoteric domains and scanning Hacker News or Reddit for hours in an attempt to discover a solvable problem.
This is particularly the case for those like me who aren’t currently in a position to solve their own problems. Maybe they don’t have the necessary expertise to build or ideate a great solution. Or maybe they simply lack the funding necessary to bootstrap the business.
To add to this, most idea sources on the internet are increasingly polluted with AI “slop” and low-signal content.
If you’ve ever tried building your own tech startup, then you know what I mean.
Solution
That’s why I’m building Not My Problem: the satirical, community-driven online newspaper for finding problems worth solving.
Think of it like “Wikipedia meets The Onion for entrepreneurs”.
Explore a curated library of real problems from the community, in addition to “official” problems from yours truly, to kickstart your journey as a founder. This hand-picked curation on my part eliminates spam and low-quality content, a growing crux of many existing solutions.
Each problem is built from a comical title, long-form description and a list of credible sources that serve as initial market validation and social proof. At least one source is required for every problem.
Members can rate each problem based on a set of four metrics, each one configured to a scale of 1-10:
- Impact: How impactful is this problem on people’s lives?
- Timing: How relevant and timely is this problem today?
- Urgency: How urgent is a solution needed?
- Frequency: How often does this problem arise?
Members can also propose edits to any problem and its sources, which go through the same human-in-the-loop moderation process as described earlier. This keeps problems updated as time goes on, maintaining the value of the platform.
Now, problems are only half the equation, of course.
Each problem also has a list of community-submitted solutions to help you evaluate whether the problem has been sufficiently solved or not.
Finally, there is also a section for threaded community discourse related to each problem.
Some other features I’m considering post-launch include semantic search, tags and a member-exclusive newsletter.
Development is already well-underway, so I’ll have much more to share in the coming weeks!
If you’d like to follow my journey more closley, you can find me on Bluesky.