[belinder]

Now where to get a list of such companies and products to decide what to build...

[razakel]

People constantly moan about their jobs, stupid processes, broken software and tools... listen to them and build something better.

[bombcar]

The problem is that usually the moaners are not the loaners - they're not the ones making the purchase decisions.

That's why you either get in via very small business (where the owner is the buyer and user) or guerrilla (like Slack et al).

[dazh]

Is this true? I've tried for months to get people to talk to me about their problems and the most common answer I get is "everything's... fine?".

[madmask]

A decent 3d CAD and multiphysics FEM (cheap comsol) would be a good start

[ph4evers]

Yes but the industry is so rooted and vendor locked that it is extremely hard. People pay for Autodesk, Ansys, comsol etc. because it is proven and engineers are trained to use it. I would not be eager to use something new if I’m a constructor or car manufacturer.

[qazxcvbnmlp]

Yep, decent 3d CAD is expensive. Competition in this space would be fantastic

[mickael-kerjean]

A dirty secret I recently learned about: look for public contracts in your area, to find some of those, google "contract register filetype:pdf".

Tons of crazy shit in there waiting to be disrupted. The tricky part is to get the right financials to bid on the interesting stuff, a good pathway there is to combine multiple companies together and make a shared bid, reach out to me if you're interested.

[bagpuss]

there's neoseed.io that sends out emails weekly with "ideas you can replicate"