Interested in solving for a social purpose. Lends a bigger meaning to life than just being a cog in the machine

Software Engineer

I have been thinking about this for a while now, we all have tech/nontech skills which could be utilised to solve each other's or social problems which you relate to.  Of course this is not for eve...

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I have been thinking about this for a while now, we all have tech/non-tech skills which could be utilised to solve each other's or social problems which you relate to.

Of course this is not for everyone, might be more suitable for people who have some time to contribute (doesn't matter how much), interested in working on some side projects, passionate about at least one social issue, having a boring life (not mandatory :P) etc.

e.g this might work like covid19india.org (read about it) 

Hope you got the gist of the idea, please show your interest below and let me know what you think of this idea. If enough people are interested I'll take the lead to plan something sustainable.

Collaborate to solve social/personal problems.

Senior Software Engineer

Collaborate to solve social/personal problems.- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

If you have time and interest, steal these ideas -

Aggregator platform for AI content generation (imagine topping up 3-5 USD in a wallet to use for a week, multiple models with their APIs to choose from for output).

Tech literacy and on demand online+offline troubleshooting platform

AI Research institute working on intersection of tech, humanities, biology and law (BCI/CBI development and regulation is the next frontier for coming 20-30 years imo)

Online white hat background check service/trust scoring for people and personalities

Artisanal food and culture experience resorts

Gamified leaderboard for verifiable positive deeds

Standup comedy and events venue chain in tier 2 and 3 cities 

Real world literacy platform preparing 15-25 yr olds for life (taxes, personal finance, Excel, law)

NFT store for purchasing advertising spaces (online/offline) 

Modular and modernized electric carts for hawkers with financing options

Modular budget friendly homes for low/mid income families


Happy to chat and help if anyone's interested in working on them. Also open to collaborating and actively working on any of them, provided you are serious and dedicated. 

I would personally recommend starting solo/2 person team max for faster execution. 

Cheers ✌️

11 projects I'd like to work on some day/see someone build it

Product Owner

Guys, I am living in a remote part of Rajasthan and working remotely from there as a software engineer.

For almost 12 years (for education purposes), I was away from home, but this recent switch gave me the opportunity to spend some time with my parents.

While staying here in the village, I am thinking of contributing back to the village. 

I am thinking of starting weekly workshops where I would visit schools, interact with student,  and help them be aware of technology, the internet, etc.

Need your help in getting some more ideas about what can I cover in these workshops.

Also, I would like to know ways you guys think of contributing back to society. May be not now, but I'm sure many people do think of doing something for others someday.

I will be here for almost 1.5 years, so I want to make it count. (That is my plan, but things can change)

What are some ways you would like to contribute back to society?

If anyone can share and discuss about something interesting you might be working on, tricky to solve. Feeling a little bored with all the routine stuff.

Anybody working on something interesting and hard to solve?

Intern

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hi guys,

Thinking of building a personal project (web dev), which would be a solution to some real world problems in your day to day life.

Getting bored after work so any suggestions or any idea that comes up in your mind, please share!😃

Real world project ideas

I have been an introvert all my childhood, pretty shy, with a very small group of friends, and I thought I was the only one who felt lonely sometimes. Since joining college, I realised there are so manyyyy people out there(especially in the dev community) who feel lonely a lot of times. 
I wanna build an app to connect devs. Relationships are what makes our lives fulfilling right. I have the whole idea ready in my mind, and I talked to a couple peeps about my app idea too and they loved it

I wanna cure loneliness

Software Developer

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

share your silly/interesting/futuristic ideas, which are rotting away in your notes

PS: don't worry about someone stealing your idea, ideas don't matter, execution does. If market is big enough multiple players make money, anyway competition is for losers.

Idea Dump

1.Dehydration of the vegetables and fruits which are considered as poor quality (shape/size) and making Nutritional Powders out of it for livestock consumption. 
 2.E-Market Place to buy Bio-degradable waste (Husk,Paddy Straw) For bio-fuel products based companies. 
 3. Agri-Tourism and an Incubation centre (Makers Place) for Rural Entrepreneurs (Pottery, Bags, Food Products, Clothes etc)

Category Manager

Which village people/community qualities would you like to bring to the cities, which they lack. right now ?

I'm working on a community, the idea is to make cities better by bringing few villages like qualities, because obviously villages are better.

Do you prefer a village or a small town life ?

Hi guys, I am looking to build a project for personal learning using Angular + Java incorporating AI/ML if the use case demands. What are some interesting ideas that you guys would want to come to life/ problems you guys face to which solutions currently don't exist? 

Please put down in comments!!

Solving real world problems

Lately, I have been thinking very deeply about my college days when the Flipkart story had inspired the entire lot of my batch at IIT-D. We were starry eyed college kids who wanted to do something innovative in India and break away from the "three" most popular moves after IIT:

1. UPSC
2. MBA
3. MS/PhD abroad

I proceeded to then work in various Indian startups and noticed an alarming thing. I began to realise a pattern across all my stints:

The initial founding team does exceptional work innovating, they excel at what Thiel calls "Zero to One", the act of creation. I will concede that although most founders fail to innovate by often copying what worked in the west but the initial founding team usually excels in execution. It allows for initial traction as it breathes a fresh breath in the\ space that they are operating in.

Almost always, when Product Market Fit is "achieved"(whatever that means), the founders begin to deploy insane amounts of funds into growth. 

By definition, Growth is not a bad thing. But, I have been noticing that across all startups I have worked at( all raised funds from the largest global funds) that it comes at the expense of product building. And during this era of hypergrowth, the product starts to stagnate while focus becomes marketing and sales. 

I often felt that this was temporary. That once we reach enough scale, we would start to innovate again. 
But time and time again, the ability to innovate atrophies over time.
Rather than building something that has enduring value by executing faster than anyone, the focus becomes achieving growth at all costs. 

This ultimately leads to two outcomes:
1. The startup cannot sustain this growth and retention begins to look dire. The churn becomes unbearable and the startup goes out of business.

2. The startup gets acquired by someone bigger, allowing founders and investors to believe that they created value where none existed in the first place.

I am completely dejected at this.

The Death of Indian Innovation: Why Indian Start Ups are failing to Innovate?

Growth Manager

Got an idea to build a social networking app for people to tackle loneliness and find friends easily. We can take this forward in the comments section:)

Looking for Co-founders

Customer Success

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

I recently started with copywriting as a service. Did small gigs here and there. Wrote LinkedIn posts. Social media captions. Emails. Blogposts. Ads. I want to work with D2C brands in NA/EU. Mostly in ads, emails & content. How can I approach and pitch them? Cold emails? DMs?

Getting clients as a copywriting freelancer?

Sales

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Hello all, 

I have been preparing for product interviews and wanted to check if anyone is actively looking for product roles and want to practice product case studies via mock interviews? 

People who are actively looking/are serious about it kindly comment, will take it forward from there.

Mock interview partners needed!

Product Manager

What’s a startup idea you had but you never built it

I’ll go first. Mine was a high quality alcohol delivery service. But I later realised how difficult it is to pull it off due to regulation.  
  
 BevMo is a huge company in the US doing the same

Business Development Manager

Hi 👋 

Engineer’s who are doing side projects, what can be a good approach for a person who has the idea but don’t have much time to implement it. 

Should the person be hiring a freelancer or do you have any other idea here?

Side Project:

Long-ish post but I’m just thinking out loud here: 

When you’re working in content, you’re always looking for expert insights for your blogs, whitepapers etc. but there are many roadblocks (finding the right person, constant follow ups, too busy to collaborate) and even on platforms like HARO, Qwoted etc. you get AI generated replies. 

What if there’s a tool that automatically creates a list of industry experts you can reach out to, along with extracting their contact info by using AI (analysing their LI, web presence etc.). The tool can also create a personalised email outreach sequence to avoid multiple follow ups too. You can eliminate guesswork and reach out to people who can actually provide meaningful contributions to your piece. 

And for SMEs, instead of scheduling long meetings they can just receive a form with focused questions relevant to the topic where they just respond via text or voice notes. It saves time and ensures fruitful collabs. 

Is this an idea worth exploring or should this just be left alone as a 2am thought? Honest opinions pls, be as brutal as y’all can be :)

Is there a tool that automates collecting insights from SMEs?

Content Strategist

We're the team behind https://thesocial.company. this is a passion project for us and not a company in the conventional sense where we want people to come out in the real world and co-create experiences with real people. We're just starting out, so do let us know what you think. Cheers!!

So someone posted about us here recently so let us introduce ourselves

Founder

I know we all somewhere deep down in our minds are thinking of starting up something new, some crazy SAAS that would disrupt the market, and make you a founder overnight ! But the friction is way too much, mostly because we are surrounded by people who don’t think the same way, who are stuck in the trap of 9to5 like us, but are also satisfied with it ! 
So I am calling out all the people who may have some crazy idea, or maybe don’t even have and idea ? Just a crazy will to build something of their own !! Let’s connect and spend more time with people who think like you and want to reach somewhere! 📈

Looking for people who want to startup!

I know this will sound like a very biased opinion but just sharing my 2 cents of today’s market.

The way with highest probability of success, money and ensuring a better future for your future generations is to startup.

It has the highest risk, highest reward. But in today’s landscape: where inflation is always higher than your hike, there’s no guarantee of employment even in next 1 years, the effort to remain in top 1% is humongous and many other reasons like that, really make me feel that if you’re able to start a company and even capture 0.1% of market who’s willing to pay something for your service/product, that’s all you need. Of course the struggle doesn’t end there and you have to keep working for as long as possible? But your capacity to earn and provide for generations to come is much higher than working for someone else.

All disagreement is welcome :)
Just tired of running this race for years now and still never feeling financially secure.

The guaranteed way to success (if there’s one)

It depends, founding a startup is a 24/7. For me, I need the time that 9-5 jobs provide after work for my health issues. Also my current company is doing a lot of layoffs so everyday I start with uncertainty and anxiety, but cannot quit cos I need the income. We are definitely moving backwards in growth in this corporate slavery, expensive education and inflation. In India, Our entire identities is based on our jobs as though your life is useless if you don’t have one!!

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