Built to find problems worth solving.

What we are looking for

We collect observations of friction: repetitive tasks, frustrating processes, inefficient workflows, awkward workarounds, manual coordination and everyday annoyances, in business or in life. A useful observation describes what actually happened, who it happened to, what they were trying to get done, and what doing it today costs them.

You don’t need a solution, a business case or any technical expertise. A firsthand account of something that was harder than it should have been is the whole contribution.

What happens to a signal

We keep what you wrote in your own words. Over time we look for observations that share an underlying problem and a similar situation, and we look just as hard for counterexamples. Where a pattern seems to matter, we talk to the people who live with it to understand the real episodes, what they already use, and what the consequences are.

A single observation is evidence to examine, not proof of a market. Several similar observations are a reason to go and ask better questions, not a decision to build anything. Anything we do build follows from that work, deliberately, and only after it holds up.

What this is not

SolveSignal is not a public database of submissions, a community, a voting platform, a marketplace or a startup-idea exchange. Submissions are not published, and there is no public feed to browse.

Who we are

SolveSignal is a venture of Lightware Media Inc. This is version 0.1, and it is an experiment: we are testing whether people can recognize and describe this kind of friction, and whether the result reveals opportunities worth investigating.