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Life & fun · March 5, 2012

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A way for entrepreneurs to connect with business problems to work on

http://repp.herokuapp.com Originally, my partner and I built this app internally (just in the past few days) to find trends and commonalities in our customer development process in the commercial real estate industry. However, as we kept getting responses about pain points in these professionals' lives, we decided that this information would be really useful to any entrepreneur looking for problems to solve. Right now the web app is super basic with no login or authentication. It's like a basic notepad. Ultimately the question is, do you find this sort of information useful? If not, what…

A way for entrepreneurs to connect with business problems to work on launched on March 5, 2012 with 54 votes, #28 of 340 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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This web app helps entrepreneurs discover real business problems worth solving by collecting and displaying pain points from professionals across various industries. Built initially for internal use in commercial real estate customer development, it evolved into a platform for crowdsourcing problems entrepreneurs can tackle. The interface is intentionally minimal, functioning like a basic notepad without login requirements, designed to gather feedback on whether this approach to identifying market opportunities proves valuable.

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http://repp.herokuapp.com Originally, my partner and I built this app internally (just in the past few days) to find trends and commonalities in our customer development process in the commercial real estate industry. However, as we kept getting responses about pain points in these professionals' lives, we decided…

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