I’ve been working on the process of identifying problems and turning them into ideas. Recently, I started building an MVP to collate all my lab reports into one place—only to see someone release something very similar (see biotracker.me) on Show HN just the other day.

Another idea I had was about organizing all hospital health records in one platform, but it turns out there are already several startups working on that (see: onerecord.com) . It feels like every idea I come up with is already being solved by someone else.

Even with the explosion of LLM-based technologies, most new apps just feel like wrappers around ChatGPT—something anyone else could easily replicate.

So, I’m curious: what are some hard software problems you’d love to see solved? Or am I just looking in the wrong places for inspiration?

Would love to hear your thoughts!