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These early examples show the kind of problems Solveworthy is designed to collect. Public problems help the community identify pain points worth exploring. If you have a private idea for solving a problem, start a solution instead.
University students
Students often choose courses based on limited descriptions, outdated reviews, or word of mouth, which can lead to wasted time, poor academic fit, and missed career value.
Asking friends, searching old forums, checking professor reviews, or guessing from the syllabus.
International students
Students often have to secure housing remotely, making them vulnerable to scams, misleading listings, high deposits, and poor-quality accommodation.
Facebook groups, WhatsApp chats, university notice boards, agents, or asking other students.
University students
Group work often becomes messy because students use different tools, miss deadlines, and have unclear responsibilities.
WhatsApp groups, Google Docs, spreadsheets, reminders, and last-minute meetings.
Small café and restaurant owners
Delivery orders may increase revenue while quietly reducing profit after platform fees, packaging costs, discounts, refunds, and labor disruption.
Manual calculations, accounting reports, rough guesses, or ignoring the true margin.
Small business owners and service providers
Some customers generate revenue but require too much support, customization, rework, or administrative time, reducing actual profitability.
Gut feeling, spreadsheets, accounting data, or reviewing customer issues manually.
Small local businesses
Customers often leave only when unhappy, and businesses discover problems after public reputation damage has already happened.
Review sites, informal conversations, feedback cards, or manually asking regular customers.
Freelancers and independent contractors
Late payments create cash-flow stress and force freelancers into uncomfortable follow-ups that can damage client relationships.
Manual emails, invoice reminders, spreadsheets, accounting tools, or waiting.
Remote workers and distributed teams
Important decisions get buried across tools, causing repeated discussions, confusion, missed context, and slow execution.
Meeting notes, Slack search, Notion pages, email threads, or asking teammates.
Managers, founders, students, and remote teams
Meetings often end without clean ownership, deadlines, or next steps, causing work to stall or repeat.
Manual notes, project management tools, recordings, or follow-up emails.
Renters
The listed rent often does not reflect the true monthly cost of living in a place, leading to poor financial decisions.
Spreadsheets, manual estimates, broker messages, Google Maps, and guesswork.
Renters and tenants
When disputes happen, tenants often lack clean records of messages, photos, dates, repairs, and repeated issues.
Phone photos, email folders, WhatsApp screenshots, notes apps, and memory.
Roommates and shared households
Unclear shared expenses create resentment, awkward conversations, and unpaid balances.
Splitwise, spreadsheets, bank transfers, group chats, or informal memory.
Patients
Healthcare booking is often confusing, slow, and financially unclear, causing patients to delay care or choose poorly.
Calling clinics, insurance portals, Google searches, doctor referrals, and manual comparison.
Independent clinicians, therapists, and healthcare providers
Documentation takes time away from patient care and creates administrative overload.
Templates, dictation tools, manual notes, EHR systems, or after-hours admin work.
Patients and caregivers
Poor follow-through can reduce treatment effectiveness, increase confusion, and create avoidable follow-up visits.
Paper instructions, pharmacy labels, memory, family reminders, or notes apps.
Wheelchair users and mobility-impaired pedestrians
A route may exist on a map but still fail in practice because of stairs, missing curb ramps, steep slopes, construction, blocked sidewalks, or poor surfaces.
Google Maps, local knowledge, asking others, trial and error, or taking longer routes.
Disabled customers, older adults, parents with strollers, and people with mobility constraints
Businesses may claim to be accessible, but real access depends on entrances, bathrooms, seating, steps, doors, and staff awareness.
Google reviews, calling ahead, photos, social media, or personal recommendations.
Wheelchair users, visually impaired pedestrians, parents with strollers, and older adults
Scooters, construction, parked cars, and blocked curb ramps can make an otherwise usable route impossible.
Avoiding areas, trial and error, asking locals, or turning back.
Public transit riders
Crowding affects comfort, accessibility, safety, timing, and whether people can board with luggage, strollers, wheelchairs, or bikes.
Transit apps, memory, guessing based on time of day, or waiting for the next vehicle.
Urban drivers
Parking search wastes time, fuel, money, and creates traffic frustration.
Driving around, parking apps, local knowledge, or paying for garages.
Disabled travelers, tourists, parents with strollers, and people carrying luggage
Elevator outages, stairs, confusing entrances, and unclear platform access can make a route fail unexpectedly.
Transit websites, Google Maps, calling stations, local knowledge, or arriving early.
Restaurant owners, managers, and kitchen staff
Multiple tablets create chaos, missed orders, timing issues, staff stress, and mistakes during peak hours.
Manual tablet monitoring, paper tickets, order aggregators, or assigning staff to manage devices.
Restaurant owners and managers
Overstaffing wastes money, while understaffing damages service quality and burns out employees.
Manager intuition, past schedules, weather guesses, reservations, and sales history.
People with allergies, intolerances, religious dietary needs, or strict diets
Menu labels are often incomplete, staff knowledge varies, and mistakes can create health risks or bad experiences.
Calling ahead, reading reviews, asking staff, avoiding restaurants, or sticking to known places.
Parents and guardians
Unexpected schedule changes can create work conflicts, stress, and safety concerns when reliable childcare is not immediately available.
Family, friends, babysitter lists, parent groups, WhatsApp chats, or missing work.
Older adults and their families
Finding trustworthy help for repairs, care, transportation, technology, and home services can be confusing and risky.
Family recommendations, local directories, phone calls, online reviews, or avoiding the task.
Job seekers
Strong applications require customization, but doing this manually for every role is slow and discouraging.
Generic resumes, ChatGPT, resume templates, spreadsheets, and manual rewriting.
Early founders and small startup teams
Without clear metrics, teams may focus on vanity numbers instead of evidence that a problem is real and users care.
Investor blogs, accelerators, spreadsheets, dashboards, and guessing.
People relocating to new cities
A listing may look good online but still be a poor fit because of commute, safety, noise, grocery access, transit, or local services.
Google Maps, Reddit, Facebook groups, asking locals, YouTube, and short visits.
Family caregivers
Care coordination is emotionally stressful and administratively complex, especially when multiple relatives, doctors, and medications are involved.
Shared calendars, WhatsApp groups, paper folders, notes apps, and repeated calls.