Check out: https://explodingtopics.com/ (not related to them in any way). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Sounds pretty similar to the situation I found myself in. I discovered a few newsletters/tools: trending insights (free), exploding topics ($39/mo), and trends.co ($300/ yr). Source: almost 3 years ago

I also recommend subscribing to newsletters like new venture weekly (free) or Exploding Topics (freemium) for business ideas. Source: about 3 years ago

Best to start with what you're good at doing, check websites like exploding topics and answer the public to see if there is hype/market around your skillset. Get started by helping people in that niche for free, use AI tools to supercharge your work and find clients. Rinse and repeat until you start making money. Source: about 3 years ago

There are places that can even help you find the perfect niche to go into like exploding niches, exploding topics to name a few. Source: about 3 years ago

Tools like Userdoc (https://userdoc.fyi) help in a few ways, you can easily create requirements (stories, personas, journeys, test cases), but also reverse engineer existing source code into detailed docs, then ask natural language questions etc. AI helps us plan our product in Userdoc, and our devs connect via MCP to bring those requirements directly in to Cursor (full disclaimer, I work at Userdoc - but we eat... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Userdoc has versioning of stories and acceptance criteria, aimed to at helping this exact issue https://userdoc.fyi (transparency: I’m the founder). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I'm interested to hear how other people are using tools to help them, we've been playing with userdoc.fyi and having good success, but there are just so many AI related tools I feel like I can't keep up! Source: about 3 years ago

Great read, I spent years thinking requirements should live somewhere like Jira, and I feel for many teams this is the case. But as the author mentions, Jira contains tasks related to bugs, text changes, colour changes etc.. These are not product requirements per se. Like the author, I came to the conclusion requirements are best kept in a requirements management system, that integrates with your project... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

I built Userdoc (https://userdoc.fyi) a requirements management system for software projects. After running a development consultancy for 8 years, I wanted a dedicated system for gathering and confirming requirements, and only syncing them with project management tools like Jira when they are ready (but keeping them in Userdoc as the living documentation and source of truth. Things are going well, we have some... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago