Ask HN: Recently laid off developer looking for solo product ideas

7 thatgloomyguy 2 8/22/2025, 6:12:22 AM

I'm an experienced (10+) fullstack developer who was recently laid off and find myself at an interesting crossroads. Rather than immediately jumping back into the job search, I'm considering this an opportunity to explore building something on my own or working on exciting ideas that could turn into meaningful products. I am looking for I ideas for solo products that could be built and launched relatively quickly and problems worth solving that don't require a large team initially. Also looking for opportunities to collaborate on interesting projects with other developers. Have you built successful solo products? What problems are you seeing in your day-to-day work that could use better solutions? Any advice for someone making this transition?

Comments (2)

CER10TY · 1h ago

Talk to people outside tech. Lots of small problems worth solving, but not in tech. Also, just because it's a problem in someone's day to day won't mean they'll pay to fix it.

Good luck!

georgestrakhov · 2h ago

I have way more ideas than I have time to build. Maybe we should talk. What is your preferred stack?

My first project in Go is a terminal dashboard (what a programming language)

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