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24 alternatives to A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs

How does it work? You just write a short title of what you want like “24/7 cafe in my town”, a short description why you need it - “I like to work late, don’t like to work at home and all coffee places close at 9” and how much you would pay per visit. If many people subscribe to your idea, hopefully someone will see it and open that coffee shop. You can also see what others want and maybe get inspired. Or you can just use the website to track your ideas. What problems am I trying to solve? 1. Many startups fail because they build something that customers do not want 2. Customers do not…

This website lets users post unfulfilled needs—like a 24/7 cafe—with descriptions and how much they'd pay, creating a public record of customer demand. Others can browse ideas, subscribe to ones they share, and get… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A simple, meaningful way to fund your creativity.

    2018 · buymeacoffee.com · its alternatives →

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    Swipe to meet others exploring ideas and find your cofounder

    2024 · coffeespace.com · its alternatives →

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    The place to find trends & startup ideas worth building

    2025 · ideabrowser.com · its alternatives →

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    Share ideas and get feedback and followers 💭👣

    2019 · shouldimakethis.com · its alternatives →

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    100 ideas for your startup's first 100 users

    2022 · first100users.com · its alternatives →

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    Easiest way for creators to sell online

    2018 · buymeacoffee.com · its alternatives →

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    CoffeeHub▲233

    The easiest way to book time with professionals you admire

    2025 · coffeehub.jp · its alternatives →

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    Coffee▲351

    A tiny time tracker for your next big project

    2022 · trycoffee.co · its alternatives →

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    Share and discover great startup ideas people actually want

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    2014 · letstalkover.coffee · its alternatives →

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    I made this for people like myself who keep a list of ideas for apps / startups. I also made it for people who are curious to see what projects others have "in their drawer"... and who may want to have a say in which idea should see the light of day. https://ideas.dynamate.io/ The site allows creators to anonymously showcase their idea: Title. Description text. Maybe some mockups... I've tried to make it so that it's quick and easy to just dump an idea in there that's been sitting on some list of yours for months - and hopefully get some feedback on it. If someone else on…

    2022 · ideas.dynamate.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn a Reddit complaint into your next company

    Jul 2026 · theeurekadatabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Successful business ideas not yet launched in your country

    2018 · idea-crunch.com · its alternatives →

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    Brutally honest feedback to help you refine your ideas

    2023 · startuproasters.com · its alternatives →

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    I started a newsletter sending out daily startup ideas. After a year, I transitioned to weekly ideas with more in-depth details. I recently posted all of them to the website and made them searchable. Check it out and let me know what you think. By providing more than just an idea, my hope is to help someone start their next business. https://www.startupsfromthebottom.com/

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Idearr▲118

    The future of entrepreneurship, turn creativity into profit

    2024 · idearr.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I made a really quick web app to help people validate their ideas. The app is a simple landing page builder, but every page includes a really simple Yes/No "Are You Interested?" poll. Every vote is recorded and tracked, and if they click yes they are brought to a page where they can submit an email. This makes validating ideas super easy because you can post your link to different communities and get statistically significant results as well as build an email list. Given an hour, you could easily create 50 different landing pages and be able to validate your ideas in bulk. The…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hey there! I realized I was compiling a list of coffee shops with highly curated reviews in my personal notes: chair comfort, Wi-Fi networks and passwords, internet speed, noise level, bathroom cleanliness, etc... It worked fine for me, but when I wanted to share my list to some friends I realized the underlying problem. So I created Workffee for two reasons: 1. To allow me to save my reviews in a more convenient way and share them. 2. To connect with others who are interested in this information, and who knows, maybe share a coffee and a work session together eventually. I hope you like my…

    2024 · workffee.com · its alternatives →

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    Helps startups test their market before launch

    2021 · ideacooker.com · its alternatives →

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    It’s available on iOS now: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id6499280064 We got into specialty coffee during COVID and, like many others, fell deep down the rabbit hole. Along the way, we ran into the same frustrations: - A drawer full of empty coffee bags. - No simple way to track grind size, rest dates, notes—by bean. - My coffee history scattered across photos, screenshots, notebooks, and half-memories. - The unique traits, people, and stories behind each coffee disappearing from the internet once it sold out (since coffee is an agricultural good) - In our opinion, no…

    2025 · beanbook.app · its alternatives →

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    I have always found it funny how challenging it can be to find people to jam on side projects with. There are literally entire sub-Reddits where people post looking for someone to work on a project with. That is super inefficient. There are also newsletters for this (also pretty inefficient). Let's Jam is my attempt to solve this. This is NOT a cofounder matching platform. The idea is to connect people with ideas and skills so they can jam on them together. If they end up becoming cofounders, cool, but that is up to them. This is also NOT a place for freelancers to hunt job opportunities.…

    May 2026 · letsjam.live · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've been working on a small project called DemandHunt. Basically I aggregated problems in niche communities so that you as an entrepreneur can take inspiration. The background is that I've worked with a number of startups and I've found that many entrepreneurs already have a technology or solution in mind and work backwards to find the people with the problems to solve. This is YC's "Solution in Search of a Problem" problem, and my understanding is that it's typically better to work the other way around so you can build the right solution for the problem you find instead. Thus I…

    2023 · demandhunt.com · its alternatives →

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