Explore Problems & App Ideas
Search and filter 39 real business problems from workers across every industry. App ideas group related problems into buildable product concepts.
Individual Problems
CircuitLab for Kids
Teacher needs a way to teach elementary students about simple electric circuits without physical components like batteries, bulbs, and wires.
SubPlan Guardian
A teacher's sub plans are ignored, and substitutes give below-grade-level busy work to minority students, undermining their learning and perpetuating the achievement gap.
ExplainEase AI
A teacher struggles to explain math concepts clearly on the spot, especially when students ask unanticipated questions across a wide range of topics in a differentiated learning environment.
SlideCraft AI
A teacher with 6 preps needs a tool that actually reduces work by helping create Google Slides more easily, but existing tools still require too much manual input, making them no better than doing it manually.
PhonicsPath
A 4th/5th grade teacher at a low-income school has 24 of 30 students reading far below grade level and no provided reading intervention, needing an affordable, phonics-focused program to implement herself.
TestWise Toolkit
A teacher lacks explicit, consistent resources for teaching academic vocabulary and test-taking strategies like marking questions with symbols and annotations.
EduGuide AI Quality Assistant
Teachers are using AI to generate lesson plans and resources, leading to poor quality, confusing materials, and demotivation among support staff and students.
TypeFree Classroom
A teacher needs a free typing instruction app for Chromebooks that does not collect student personal information, suitable for grades K-12.
ConceptClarity
A student finds McGraw Hill's accounting textbook content unnecessarily difficult and confusing, hindering their understanding of intermediate accounting concepts.
SpellSpark
5th grade students are severely behind in spelling and the new curriculum is not working.
LanguageBridge Classroom
Teacher needs free or low-cost apps/websites to help a Russian-speaking Grade 6 student with little English participate and stay engaged in class.
ClassBoard Hub
Teacher wants an alternative to ClassroomScreen because they lost access to many websites after moving to a DOE school.
ReadBoost Intervention Suite
A first-year middle school art teacher assigned to teach ELA reading intervention without training or curriculum, struggling to help students who are far below grade level and unsure about assessment or progress tracking.
ReadHub for Classrooms
Teacher lacks a good way to present digital articles to students that mimics the textbook experience with color images and annotation capabilities.
DailyDose Display Studio
Teacher needs an AI tool to generate daily display visuals with images, historical birthdays, memes, and jokes for student engagement.
ClassReader
A kindergarten teacher needs an app or website to display leveled readers (e.g., Level A) on a smartboard for whole-class reading.
DoodleSpark Classroom
Elementary teachers need a drawing app that students can use independently without constant help, with simple menus and built-in prompts to avoid 'I don't know what to draw'.
ArtfulPlanner
First-year art teacher struggles to structure daily lessons to include direct instruction every day, fearing negative evaluations during unannounced observations on studio work days.
PrepEngage
An educator is unsure how to effectively use limited lecture time, torn between traditional lectures and flipped classroom models, and concerned about low student engagement with pre-class online content.
SkillAlign Pro
A third grade teacher using HMH Into Reading struggles to align the spiraling curriculum with standards-based grading, which requires teaching and assessing one skill at a time.
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