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I'd avoid twitter for the single reason being their API user-limit.

If your service explodes somehow, you'll easily end up at 75,000 users with the stress that your product will die as user 100,001 will not be able to join.

Also, you need to determine whether your problem is either "a proper product" or just a "feature request".

In the case of the above, it seems like just a feature request.

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True, that sounds like a feature more than a product, plus I would hate to have to rely on third parties.

I want to build a product, something useful.

Try this:

http://ideasquares.com/about

One thing I have been doing lately is going through sites like Freelancer.com and browsing their projects section. I have been looking for "build a website" projects and gathering ideas this way. Feels a little dirty since they are not my ideas.

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