Explore Problems & App Ideas
Search and filter 66 real business problems from workers across every industry. App ideas group related problems into buildable product concepts.
App Ideas (4)
View allShieldCheck: Smart Fraud Screening
Small merchants lack accessible, integrated fraud screening at checkout and guidance when payment processors flag orders. This leads to lost sales and time-consuming manual review.
“E-commerce merchants face costly chargeback disputes because customers file bank disputes during investigation delays, which count against the merchant's dispute ratio even if the merchant later wins.”
“E-commerce owner struggles to automate fraud detection without blocking legitimate orders or missing fraudulent ones, losing $1,200 in a month due to tuning mistakes.”
VerifyShield: Fraud Prevention
An app that guides users through a secure, step-by-step process for verifying vendor banking details and invoice authenticity, reducing fraud risk in bookkeeping.
“AP teams struggle to verify supplier bank-change requests reliably because most fraud originates from compromised legitimate supplier emails, defeating common rule-based checks.”
“Small business owners need a reliable way to verify vendor payment details and detect fraudulent invoice or bank-change requests during year-end processing.”
TrueRent Fraud Shield
An app that uses AI to detect synthetic identities and income fraud in rental applications. It focuses on verifying documents through secure digital trails rather than unsecured PDFs.
“Property managers face a high volume of fraudulent rental applications with fake income and CPNs, worsening seasonally.”
“A property manager struggles to detect increasingly sophisticated fake income documents, causing daily anxiety and exhausting manual forensic checks.”
PayVerify
An app that automatically verifies vendor payment details and bank change requests in real-time, preventing impersonation fraud. It integrates with email and accounting systems to flag suspicious changes without manual checks.
“Small businesses are vulnerable to invoice fraud where scammers send fake consulting invoices spoofing CEO approval, and auto-entry systems make it harder to detect.”
“No reliable method to verify vendor bank change emails, risking fraud.”
Individual Problems
RefundSage
E-commerce merchants face costly chargeback disputes because customers file bank disputes during investigation delays, which count against the merchant's dispute ratio even if the merchant later wins.
BankChangeShield
AP teams struggle to verify supplier bank-change requests reliably because most fraud originates from compromised legitimate supplier emails, defeating common rule-based checks.
Adaptive Fraud Shield
E-commerce owner struggles to automate fraud detection without blocking legitimate orders or missing fraudulent ones, losing $1,200 in a month due to tuning mistakes.
SecurePayroll Vault
A business owner is frustrated that their payroll platform, Gusto, has been unresponsive to a security breach and is seeking an alternative provider.
PayVerify Pro
Small business owners need a reliable way to verify vendor payment details and detect fraudulent invoice or bank-change requests during year-end processing.
Chargeback Shield
Merchant loses $510 (part of $4,650 in sales) to a chargeback despite providing evidence, and receives no explanation or recourse from payment processor Square.
LeadScam Radar
Freelance designer is receiving suspicious, possibly AI-generated design inquiries that waste time and lead nowhere.
VendorGuard
Finance teams lack a reliable safeguard against fraudulent supplier bank detail change requests, as existing manual processes are often bypassed under urgency.
VerifyPay
Businesses lack a reliable, efficient way to verify that bank account information provided by vendors or customers actually belongs to the intended recipient before initiating payments, especially when account changes are requested.
RentCheck Guardian
A person suspects their father is diverting rent checks from a shared apartment building partnership account into his personal account and needs to prove it without alerting him.
Vault Mail
Accounts Payable teams struggle to detect altered PDF invoices where fraudsters have changed bank details, leading to potential payments to wrong accounts.
SecurePay Digital Goods
A tarot reader selling PDFs and readings is experiencing fraudulent UPI chargebacks, leading to bank account holds and blocked withdrawals, causing her to consider quitting.
VendorGuard AP
A small finance team lacks internal controls and a clear workflow to prevent and detect vendor payment fraud via ACH detail changes, with only one person able to modify records and make payments.
FraudGuard AR/AP
Accounts receivable and accounts payable clerks face fraudulent payment attempts and reconciliation issues due to lack of clean customer/vendor data and outdated internal controls after acquisitions.
ExpenseGuard AI
Finance teams need scalable automated detection of fraudulent or erroneous expense receipts beyond manual spot checks.
VendorGuard AI
Businesses lack a reliable daily process to verify vendor legitimacy and detect invoice or banking detail fraud, especially for large payments and long-standing vendors.
RentClear Verify
A rental application was denied solely because Snappt's fraud detection software incorrectly flagged a legitimate bank statement as fraudulent, and the property manager refused to override the automated decision.
FraudCase Automator
Accountant frustrated by the time and administrative burden of documenting and reporting fraud, which requires extra hours and dealing with lawyers and colleagues.
VendorGuard AI
AP clerks need to manually verify vendor bank change requests to prevent fraud, lacking a way to automate the human judgment involved in detecting suspicious requests.
Vendor TrustGuard
AP teams cannot reliably detect vendor email compromise fraud because standard email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) passes and the email originates from the vendor's real mailbox.
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