TinyLog: Don't Brainstorm a Product Idea. Solve Your Frustration.

How a personal annoyance turned into a real business.

Apr 07, 2026

I focused on TinyLaunch for over a year, then I accidentally started a second business. Now I have two products generating revenue. Here's how I come up with new product ideas.

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Last week’s winners

The following products got the most votes during the past launch week.

🥇 floors.js — Turn your website into a 3D chat room

🥈 Liniest — All-in-one social suite. Post everywhere, automatically.

🥉 Dictato — Private voice-to-text for Mac

Personal favorite

yt-clipper — Trim YouTube clips without full downloads. If you've ever downloaded a 2-hour video just to use 30 seconds of it, this is for you.

What’s new?

TinyShots native updates:

🎬 GIF recording with a selection area you can move while recording
✂️ Line and cross markup tools
⌨️ Customizable global keyboard shortcuts

Still available in early bird pricing at TinyShots.app :)

Don’t Brainstorm a Product Idea. Solve Your Frustration.

I spent over a year focused on TinyLaunch. Most of my energy in one place. During that time I built exactly one side tool: TinyTab, a web app for generating invoices. Nobody asked for it, I just needed it for my own business.

Lately I needed to make screenshots look good. I was using existing tools for a while, but none of them handled multiple images the way I wanted. So I built TinyShots as a web app in a couple of days. For me.

People started using it. Then they asked for a Mac app. So I built that too. Now it’s making real money.

I didn’t sit down and decide to diversify. I didn’t analyze the market. I scratched my own itch and it turned out other people had the same itch.

That’s the whole trick. Don’t go looking for your next product idea. Just pay attention to what frustrates you. Build the solution. If it’s only useful to you, that’s okay. Now you have the tool you needed. If other people want it too, you have a business.

Maybe thorough market analysis leads to better ideas. Maybe it doesn’t. What I do know is that I see a bunch of products nobody needs every day. When you build something you need yourself, you guarantee at least one real user. In my case, scratching my own itch worked out great.