So are you probing HN for a problem you can try to solve, or are you actually trying to help some friends?
If it's the latter, I would have expected YC to have taught them the path to answer, talk to your users
if nobody else has the same problem I'm just gonna hack together some scripts, call it a day, and charge them like a contractor.
if the problem is more generalizable then it's worth hunkering down and building something more robust, and charging them like a vendor.
at any rate, part of their problem is people are leaving before they get a chance to talk, and not enough people are talking to them. bit of a catch-22 for them. why not see if the well runs deep?
Can you share a link to your friends product? HN could look at it and perhaps give some indication of things that stand out
That's true, I am more interested in gauging if this problem is worth solving in the first place than I am interested in finding a specific solution. I am nonetheless interested in helping my friends.
No, sorry, I can't share a link.